THE CRANNY

Katya Petetskaya

The Spills

Friday 4 – Sunday 20 March 2016

Katya Petetskaya, Spill #8, 2015, synthetic polymer paint on MDF board, 61 x 91cm. Photo credit: Katya Petetskaya

Petetskaya explores the politics of contamination through oil spill sites in different parts of the world. She is fascinated with these sites as unique and distinctive nature-culture, landscape-human interactions. Combining the language and materials of landscape painting she disrupts traditional readings of this genre while also commenting on humanity’s inability to overcome their destructiveness toward nature.

Petetskaya is an interdisciplinary artist working predominantly in painting and  performance. Her paintings have investigated a composite psyche of the collective ‘landscapes’ that are created by separate psychological parts of individuals through repeated histories, individual memories and expressions. In her performance work, Petetskaya attempts correlationist experiments with alternative forms of knowledge that go beyond thought to understand the co-relation between body and reality.

Scroll down to see List of Works and CV

To see more of Katya Petetskaya’s work click here:  Katya Petetskaya

This exhibition is part of

Marrickville Open Studio Trail (MOST)
Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 March 11-5pm
(AirSpace Projects open from 11-5pm both days)

Art Month Sydney, 1-20 March
(Airspace Projects will be open the extra day of Sunday 20 March)

Sunday 20 March 11-5pm
The Artists Are Present

From 2-4pm Katya Petetskaya will be present to informally discuss her work and answer your questions. It’s a great day to hang out at AirSpace Projects! Feel free to bring along a picnic and supplement it with pickings from Sarah Newall’s garden in Outer Space.

 LIST OF WORKS

1. Spill #11, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, 935 x 630cm
SOLD

2. Spill #5, 2015, synthetic polymer paint on plywood, 420 x 595cm
$450

3. Spill #7, 2015, synthetic polymer paint on plywood, 455 x 605cm
NFS

4. Spill #8, 2015, synthetic polymer paint on MDF board, 630 x 935cm
$1100 (framed)

5. Spill #10, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, 630 x 930cm
$1100 (framed)

6. Spill #15, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, 480 x 630cm
SOLD

7. Spill #12, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, 320 x 630cm
SOLD

8. Spill #13, 2016, synthetic polymer paint on masonite board, 320 x 630cm
SOLD

9. Spill #3, 2015, synthetic polymer paint on MDF board, 610 x 915cm
$1100 (mounted)

General Biography and CV

Katya is an interdisciplinary artist working predominantly in painting and performance. Katya’s paintings have investigated a composite psyche of the collective ‘landscapes’ that are created by separate psychological parts of individuals through repeated histories, individual memories and expressions. In her performance works Katya explores the performer’s psychological and physical state in the context of time and space. She is particularly interested in the relationship between the performer’s body and its reality. Katya’s artistic research has been focused on developing research methods authentic to the visual arts, i.e. come within and from visual art practice and not from other fields/ disciplines.

Education
2013 – Present
Master of Art (Painting), UNSW Art & Design, Australia
2015
Certificate, “Art and the Politics of Estrangement” art theory course at the Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art Program, Switzerland (affiliated with the European Graduate School)

Solo and two-people exhibitions
August 2016
Female Body Alphabet, Gaffa, Sydney – with Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya
March 2016
The Spill, AirSpace Projects, Sydney

Group exhibitions
March 2016
Intercessions Open, Scratch Art Space, Sydney
December 2015
LocoLive, LOCO Project Glebe Pop-up, Sydney
November 2015
A&D Annual 2015, UNSW Galleries, Sydney
November 2015
Three Point Turn, Amnesia Lab, Sydney
September 2015
The Marathon, Booze Cooperativa, Athens, Greece
June 2015
Art and the Politics of Estrangement, Saas Fee, Switzerland
March 2015
Taking Up Space, Articulate project space, Sydney
January 2015
FERAL, Articulate project space, Sydney
September 2013
Potatomation, Archive project space, Sydney
September 2013
Sydney Fringe: Fringe Arts at The Forum, Italian Forum Cultural Centre, Sydney
April-May 2013
Walking Mountains, Kudos Gallery, Sydney
March 2013
International Women’s Day 2013 Art Prize, TAP Gallery, Sydney
June 2012
hART and Soul, Balmain Watchhouse, Sydney
October 2011
Cross Art Project, Alice St Newtown, Sydney
June 2011
To the hARTS, Balmain Watchhouse, Sydney
May 2011
Buddhism in Practical Life, Marrickville Town Hall, Sydney
October 2010
Drawing in the City at Night, Gallery Red, Sydney

Residencies & studio courses
September 2015
Epitelesis Performance Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
July 2015
Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
January 2013
Chikatsuyu, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan

Awards & scholarships
2015
Finalist in Contemporary Art Award Australia 2015
2015
Scholarship from the Berlin Summer University of the Arts to study with Valerie Favre & Robert Lucander – Universität der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2015
Scholarship to study at the “Arts and the Politics of Estrangement” art theory program and exhibition at the Saas Fee Summer Institute of Art, Saas Fee, Switzerland
2015
Arc Art & Design Grant, UNSW, Sydney, Australia
2013
AsiaBound Short Term Mobility Grant, Australia
2008 – 2011
University International Postgraduate Award Scholarship – UNSW, Sydney, Australia

Art Collectives & Art Groups
Base-Metal – Sydney platform for performance art
Potatomation Art Collective
I Live to Draw Another Day Art Group
Drawing in the City at Night Art Group