VIEW IN MY ROOM
United States
Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Size: 26 W x 38 H x 0 D in
All the Windows in this show are done from observation. The 2018 works were timed – I had a work for 9:15 am in the morning; an 11 am piece; an afternoon piece; a piece for a gloomy day. I really did not have much time to catch the moment – perhaps, half an hour at most. And then, I could only return when the state of light was similar. Of course, light is never the same, and in reality, there was no next time, just right there and right now. In that sense, each piece is an accumulation of layers of looking, of feeling and witnessing change. Each session was an intentional meditation on continuous change in and around me by paying attention to continuous variation of light. Because each session was so compressed in terms of time, there was less distance between myself and the work. I had to be present fully in each session. Through this presence I realized that there was a correlation between the window and my body, both connecting inner and outer, and each serving as a counterbalance to the other. My attention oscillated between light and my breath; breathing in, breathing out. I think these works reflect my process of embodying change and of integrating a different relationship between inner and outer, between observer and observed.
Painting:Acrylic on Paper
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:26 W x 38 H x 0 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:No
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Originally from Kyrgyzstan, Dasha Shkurpela lives in New York and works in painting, drawing and sculpture. She has exhibited her work internationally since 1995. Twice she was a finalist in the Miami University National Young Sculptors Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award and received the George Sugarman grant in sculpture. Her artwork has been published in periodicals Studio Visit and Chicago Art Journal and catalogues Fine Arts of Kyrgyzstan, Moscow: Galart, 2013, and Fine Arts in Kyrgyzstan, AUB, 2007. Over 200 of Dasha’s works can be seen her website www.dashashkurpela.com Her works are in private collections in Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Croatia, Germany, the United States; in the collections of Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, and American University in Central Asia, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Dasha writes arts criticism and explores past and present of the former Soviet space through looking at objects that remained. Her essays have been published in Shirkah - The Magazine of Islamic Finance, Economics and Culture, Switzerland, Fiction Advocate, American Society of Clinical Oncology Post, and Visible Ink 2017 Anthology. She is shortlisted for the Notting Hill Editions essay prize 2017.
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