Anastasiya Tarasenko
Biography
Anastasiya Tarasenko
Dragon Fire, 2024
Pulp painting on paper
24 x 18 in
61 x 45.7 cm
61 x 45.7 cm
Born 1989 in Kiev Ukraine. Anastasiya Tarasenko moved to New York City with her family at 6 years of age and has resided there ever since. She attended art schools early on and ultimately received her MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2017. She lives and works in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.
Artist's Statement:
I like to think of what I do as social critique; it's sharp, it's biting, and it’s aimed at everyone. The images themselves, however, are often pastoral, convivial, and humorous in the way I compose them. This reflects the true dichotomy of existence, that we are all things at once, existing simultaneously with joy and pain, innocence and perversion, etc. It is my self appointed task as an artist to observe and report these inescapable truths, much in the same way a court jester given special dispensation to mock his powerful patrons. But far from being an aloof observer, I’m probably hardest on myself. With the same, harsh bite, I make self-portraits with words and images that sting me personally every day. In a sense, I want to show you, the viewers, that I am complicit too.
Artist's Statement:
I like to think of what I do as social critique; it's sharp, it's biting, and it’s aimed at everyone. The images themselves, however, are often pastoral, convivial, and humorous in the way I compose them. This reflects the true dichotomy of existence, that we are all things at once, existing simultaneously with joy and pain, innocence and perversion, etc. It is my self appointed task as an artist to observe and report these inescapable truths, much in the same way a court jester given special dispensation to mock his powerful patrons. But far from being an aloof observer, I’m probably hardest on myself. With the same, harsh bite, I make self-portraits with words and images that sting me personally every day. In a sense, I want to show you, the viewers, that I am complicit too.
Works
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Anastasiya TarasenkoDragon Fire, 2024Pulp painting on paper24 x 18 in
61 x 45.7 cm -
Anastasiya TarasenkoValley of Happy Pigs, 2022Oil paint on copper with a handmade resin border48 x 36 in
121.9 x 91.4 cm -
Anastasiya TarasenkoCake and Milk, 2021Oil paint on copper mounted on wood panel18 x 24 in
45.7 x 61 cm -
Anastasiya TarasenkoReliquary of Utility (Bond), 2021Oil on vintage meat cleaver
12 x 3 in
30.5 x 7.6 cm -
Anastasiya TarasenkoReliquary of Utility (Bone), 2021Oil on vintage meat cleaver12 x 4 in
30.5 x 10.2 cm -
Anastasiya TarasenkoReliquary of Utility (Dog), 2021Oil on vintage meat cleaver10 x 3 in
25.4 x 7.6 cm -
Anastasiya TarasenkoGeorge Washington Crossing the Delaware, 2019Oil on wood backed copper panel16 x 20 in
40.6 x 50.8 cm
Exhibitions
