I create sculptural mixed-media works because I believe art should do more than decorate a wall — it should transform the experience of a space.
In a world saturated with speed, screens, and constant visual stimulation, I am interested in creating objects that invite attention, presence, and sensory engagement. I want the viewer to notice how light moves, how surfaces shift, and how an environment can feel different because of a single piece.
Working between painting and relief, I build each work as both image and object. Through layered texture, reflective surfaces, saturated color, and changing light, the work changes throughout the day and reveals different qualities depending on viewing angle and environment.
My background in nursing, including years of hospice care, deeply shaped how I think about emotional space, resilience, and human experience. I became interested in how environments affect us — how certain spaces can feel protective, restorative, expansive, or alive.
Using plaster, paint, metallic finishes, glass, crystal, and resin, I transform dense physical materials into luminous forms that hold visual weight while interacting with light.
My work explores transformation — not as escape, but as presence: creating objects that influence atmosphere and invite a deeper connection between people and the spaces they inhabit.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
I grew up in Kyiv, Ukraine, and immigrated to the United States at twenty. For more than two decades I worked as a nurse, much of that time in hospice care. That work shaped everything about how I see the world. I learned that the spaces we inhabit affect us profoundly. I learned that beauty, when present, is not a luxury. It is a form of care.
In 2025 I started making work. Within a year I was exhibiting at Artexpo New York at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. I have a public installation on view at Aurora Municipal Airport in Aurora, Illinois, and upcoming exhibitions at Art Santa Fe in July 2026 and Artexpo at the Mart in Chicago in October 2026.
My mother is a Petrykivka painter (a UNESCO-recognized Ukrainian decorative art tradition) and recipient of the title Artist of Ukraine. I grew up in her studio, watching her make things with her hands before I understood what that meant. Art was always present. It was always coming.
I am based in the Chicago area. My work is built on custom wood panels using plaster, resin, metallic leaf, crushed glass, mirror, and iridescent paint. Every piece is one of a kind. Nothing is printed. Nothing is reproduced. Each one exists once, and I believe each one carries the energy I put into it.