Olga Lisowska
Contemporary artist
Ukraine
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Olga Lisowska lived and worked in Kharkiv before the war. In 2013 she graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, Faculty of Graphics. Then she fell in love with graphics and still practices different types of it. She also does hand embroidery and film photography. She thinks of an artist as a prism. They collect impressions, and emotions, and refract them into some other form, which makes you laugh or frightens, but never leaves you indifferent. That is why she works with her direct surrounding. Her work is a collage of banal everyday things, childhood memories, subconscious images and fears. Therefore, flowers, birds and kittens coexist with gloomy naked figures, forest and darkness. Her works rarely have a clear narrative, rather, they are irrational stories that are much more about creating an ambience and space that lives according to a kind of its own laws. Olga notices that all truly significant events happened to her spontaneously, unplanned. Even her artistic way began with a random design class ad on the school board. In her work, she continues this line - deliberately introducing elements of an accident. It seems to her that the wrong but lively and impudent things catch the eye and make a viewer see ordinary things from a new angle. Therefore, she works with mediums that give a lot of freedom: ink, pencil, spray. She often makes sketches with the "wrong" hand in order to get rid of the internal control that tries to subordinate the impression to memorized forms. Her main goal is not to forget how to be surprised so that among everything that happens, she can still notice exciting things and pass them on to the audience. She does a lot of quick sketches, it allows her to convey the first vivid experience of encountering something interesting - you have literally five minutes to understand what exactly you like in the world around you and to decide how to make it clear to others. Attention to the surrounding world is what she works for.
#Contemporary Figurative Drawing