Anka Yanovna

Artist’s Statement:

Anka Yanovna is a multidisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media to paint entities both strange and sweet, as they emerge from alternate dimensions intersecting our reality. A devoted environmentalist and lover of Planet Earth, her work explores the natural world and our relationship to it through the eyepiece of a color drenched telescope. In these visions, living robots grow from intelligent trees, flower girls bloom over a cup of grub tea, and colorful cats carry the weight of the world on their heads. Themes of love, connection, and the joy of discovery are underpinned by serious reflections on the growing imbalance between humanity and the natural world which sustains us. Through it all, she firmly believes in the power of humor and optimism to draw viewers into her worlds. It may be weird out there, but we are not alone.

Artist Bio:

Anka was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and spent her formative years living and working in New York City before establishing her current practice in a decommissioned starship in the Maine woods. The art partnership of AGblend13 combines her pop-surreal imaginings with dimensional, hand shaped, metal “canvases” created by her design partner Gepre. Hundreds of Anka’s paintings reside in private collections around the world, and she has exhibited in galleries across the US, including La Luz de Jesus, The Hive, Poetic Tiger, Brassworks Gallery, and Nucleus Portland. She is thrilled to join the artists at KEEP Contemporary in beautiful Santa Fe.