Totem Painting

Guinean and New York based Artist Syuzanna Kamara is one of the most promising artists of her generation. Raised in Guinea and in Moscow (Russia) Syuzanna is a graduate of Moscow state Surikov Art Institute and Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts (top 3 ranked art academies in the country). As a graduate of the best Russian art schools, Syuzanna is a follower of traditional Russian art school that certainly is reflected in her works. Along with that, Syuzanna brings drops of modernity in her paintings, creating an absolutely unique and distinctive style. In her artwork Ms.Kamara skilfully combines boldness, uniqueness and eccentricity of Pop Art movement, traditions of Classicism as well as brilliantly expressing her inner world, letting it come alive through the strokes of brushes and the texture of paint. Her artwork is full of depiction of reality, vitality, raw and exposed feelings, and is daringly imaginative. In her work, Syuzanna seeks to achieve the simple forms and textures inspired by the human body, transmission of emotions with the texture of the skin and water, ice and fabrics, portraying it as the three-dimensional projection as well as two-dimensional, flat decorative. Ms. Kamara has established herself as one of the most gifted and innovative artists of her generation. Her works are presented by multiple Art Galleries in Moscow, Saint-Petersburg.