Tatiana Sougakova

"I am an abstract experimental artist by choice. I can paint and draw realistically, but I like the freshness of colors and the ambiguity of interpretations that abstract art allows. I like having a fresh new vibe in a space and questions that are not fully answered. Maybe that is why I'm drawn to testing and trying materials and combinations that are not being widely used (fabrics, vinyls, recycled materials), and making art that allows for versatility in both display and interpretation. When I paint or draw colors and patterns are my ways of preserving the energy I sense while making art in hopes to grasp it and transmit it the viewers. I often work while listening to music, so the brushstrokes or lines assume the rhythm and the flow of the music. They happen fast and very naturally. I almost never know what I am going to paint or draw when I am in front of a blank canvas. I like making fast bold gestural lines, that have movement and rhythm, and colors that are bold and nonapologetic. I am still to overcome my general avoidance of neutral colors and soft transitions of colors. I grew up in St.Petersburg, Russia, a city of beautiful architecture and many cloudy days, that is affectionately called by some "the city of hundreds ...

Fresco-secco painter
Restoration art college, St.Petersburg, Russia
MA in Slavic languages
University of St.Petersburg, Russia.

Installations, mixed media:
2021- "Dog days of summer" (Boonton, NJ)
2019 - "Symbols of Sun", mixed media installation. Barrows mansion, (Jersey City, NJ)
2019- "Bridges and Rivers", mixed media installation (Plainsboro, NJ)
2019- "Bridges and Rivers", mixed media installation, Figment NYC (Roosevelt Island, New York, NY)
2018-"The Chalk Flock", interactive/participatory street chalk art, Art Festival (Plainsboro, NJ)
2018- "Water and Ice", mixed media installation, Figment NYC (Governors Island, New York, NY)
2018​- "If Streets Wore Jewelry", mixed media installation, Princeton University Communiversity festival (Princeton, NJ)
2017- "If Streets Wore Jewelry" outdoor installation of 4 panels with painted recycled CDs (in collaboration with
Eastern Connecticut University, Willimantic, CT)
​2016- "Parade of Elsies" installation of 40+ painted silhouettes of cows (Plainsboro Art Festival)
2016-"Dog in a Sweater" painted dog sculpture for Dog Days of Summer (Boonton, NJ, USA)
2015-"Kaleidoscope of butterflies" installation of 200 colored butterflies on outside glass of the library (Plainsboro Art Festival, NJ)
2014-"Ox in Pajamas" for Hopewell Stampede (Hopewell, NJ, USA)
2013-“If streets...