{"id":505,"date":"2023-04-10T18:49:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-10T18:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/?p=505"},"modified":"2023-04-10T18:49:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-10T18:49:39","slug":"lesia-khomenko-image-and-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/2023\/04\/10\/lesia-khomenko-image-and-presence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesia Khomenko: IMAGE AND PRESENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

27 April \u2013 2 September 2023
\nThe Ukrainian Museum
\n222 East 6th St NY NY 10003
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11.30 AM \u2013 5.00 PM
\nClosed Monday \u2013 Tuesday
\n212 228 0110 \u2013 info@ukrainianmuseum.org<\/a><\/p>\n

Lesia Khomenko is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine who since the Russian invasion has been the focus of global media discussion and attention. Her approach is to reconsider the role of painting:\u00a0 she deconstructs narrative images and transforms paintings into objects, installations, performances, videos.\u00a0 Her artworks have mocked Soviet Socialist Realism\u2019s erroneous attempt to create a perfect utopian society and fantasy people, and she has probed past state-sanctioned creativity and its long-lasting impact on current artistic practices.<\/p>\n

This exhibition, Khomenko\u2019s first solo museum show in North America, reflects on the artist\u2019s creative method and her incessant investigations of identity and politics, particularly in the context of the Russian war in Ukraine. It features works from four series:<\/p>\n

The Countdown<\/em> series reimagines prominent socialist realist battle paintings by Soviet Ukrainian artists. In her canvases, Khomenko eliminates the valorous figures of soldiers and military equipment, presenting instead a depopulated terrain.<\/p>\n

Fragmented Surveillance<\/em>, with life-size paintings created for the Ukrainian Museum, builds upon the haze of war in cyberspace. The intentional, protective technique of blurring soldiers\u2019 faces, strategic sites, and landscapes on photographs from military zones finds its way into Khomenko\u2019s portrayal of unidentified armed figures.<\/p>\n

The transportable paintings in the MPATS<\/em> series capture Khomenko\u2019s own experience of living through a war and evacuation, and witnessing warfare in real time. (MPATS = man-portable anti-tank system)<\/p>\n

In her new series AJS (After Janet Sobel)<\/em>, Khomenko initiates a dialogue with the Abstract Expressionist painter whose works are also on display at the Ukrainian Museum. The installation bridges decades of narratives that were fragmented and concealed due to forced migration, resocialization, ruptures, and survivals.<\/p>\n

Born in Kyiv in 1980, Khomenko graduated from the National Academy of Art and Architecture in 2004.\u00a0 She has had several solo exhibitions in Ukraine and has taken part in numerous group shows around the world, including Women at War<\/em> at New York\u2019s Fridman Gallery in 2022, which Fridman followed in 2023 with her first solo U.S. exhibition, Full Scale<\/em>.\u00a0 While Khomenko lives and works in Kyiv, she has been in the U.S. temporarily since fleeing the Russian invasion with her daughter in March 2022, while her artist-musician husband Max serves in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

27 April \u2013 2 September 2023 The Ukrainian Museum 222 East 6th St NY NY 10003 11.30 AM \u2013 5.00 PM Closed Monday \u2013 Tuesday 212 228 0110 \u2013 info@ukrainianmuseum.org Lesia Khomenko is an acclaimed multidisciplinary artist from Ukraine who … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":506,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[45,32,175,168],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fridman-gallery","tag-lesia-khomenko","tag-russian-invasion","tag-the-ukrainian-museum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":508,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ukrainianartists.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}