Transcender Art Presentation

“It was a cold February evening on the Lower East Side, and I walked through empty streets with a canvas I put together back in October. I felt dizzy, but confident: it belongs to them streets. I made it with headlines from the oldest NYC newspaper”.

A couple weeks ago I had my Art Presentation at Equity Gallery in Manhattan. All thanks to Transcender Art Collective initiative, I had a chance to talk about my game of characters and words.

It all started back in May when I lost my job. Read more about it here, if interested.

Months went by. And then It was this crazy day outside. Election Day. And so I had an urge to make this Trump Painting.

I took it to Washington Square Park on inauguration day. I danced with it. Placed it in the snow. I filmed it. I wasn’t really trying to sell it - it was more like a public showing. And that’s how I entered a zone of Performance.

Selling my paintings on NYC street took some nerve. I really questioned my intentions. What am I trying to say with my art? Does it have to be politically influenced just because it’s inspired by the news?

Who needs politicians if there are celebs, after all?

My collage-cutting discoveries took me to a magic place where words started to become city buildings. My characters turned into female divas, surrounded by random words. Is it a treat or power? You decide for yourself.

The Guggenheim's Art Portal

Shapes are uncertain, palette is bright. Abstract human figures in unexpected patterns and color mismatch forms. Ready to teleport?

I’m talking about Paris of the early 20th-century and Orphism avant-garde art-movement. Creations of the most interesting cultural time period currently on view at The Guggenheim.

L-R: Marcel Duchamp’ painting, Guggenheim library museum entrance + a frame from “library scene” in Interstellar movie. Digital Collage by Alëna Adamson.

It all started with "Sad Young Man on a Train" for me. They hanged this Marcel’s Duchamp painting next to the library entrance. The deconstructed art phenomena and its warm colors reminded me of rustling yellow book pages. Looking at the canvas from afar, I clearly imagined my favorite “Landing in the Tesseract” scene from C. Nolan’s “Interstellar”. In my mind, it was located in the round Guggenheim wall hole aka library entrance.

Art Portal is now open. Welcome to Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930.

Orphism as an “enhanced cubism” art-movement was created by a poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire. It first appeared in 1913 - very important year in the historical sense. “The Year Before the Storm”. There’s a whole book by Florian Illies about it. Magic of everything happening at once in Europe on the threshold of the first world wars. Paintings are hypnotizing and alive. The style is associated, mainly, with Robert Delaunay and his wife Sonia, whose grandiose canvas above invites you to spy on Parisian party goers. And for her husband Robert Delaunay - I just love how he deconstructs Eiffel Tower.

Robert Delaunay - “L'Equipe de Cardiff” 1913 and “Eiffel Tower”, 1911.