2014 Artist of the Year Exhibition

Posted by: BoxHeart Gallery

March 18 - May 16
2014 Artist of the Year: IRINA KOUKHANOVA
presents
Panoptic Landscape
Public Reception: Saturday, March 22nd from 5-8pm

In her two - and three - dimensional work, artist Irina Koukhanova addresses the space where the solitary struggle and triumph of the individual psyche unravel through a multitude of references escorted by an ironic grin. “Panoptic Landscape” captures an all-encompassing system viewed from the perspective of a human or an animal, an adult or a child, and alludes to authority, power play and the dynamics of entrapment.

Educated at the Moscow Institute of Art and Industrial Design, the University
of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, and the University of Notre Dame, IN, Koukhanova is currently the head of the sculpture program at Cleveland State University. An internationally exhibiting artist, Koukhanova has recently showed her work in Switzerland and Slovakia. She has a
number of public and corporate art commissions and her artist residencies include Sculpture Space, NY and the Santa Fe Art Institute, NM, among others.