INNER CHILD

DIGITAL ARTWORKS BY OLGA FESHINA 2021

Olga Feshina was always attracted by the influence on the nature and consciousness of modern humans. Consequently, her performance of collection THE INTERNET, where a girl came out with a laptop Apple and other models had temporary vinyl tattoos with Internet addresses on their bodies caused the real furor at a show in Moscow Museum of Architecture named Tchusev in Russia, in 2000. In the following years, she continued her digital art experiments in video art and digital graphic art. A digital animated collections Girls On The Roof and Inner Child are a part of the ongoing series New Tech Girls by Olga Feshina.

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Inner Child Is Searching For Knowledge, 2021, digital graphics, animation, video, 00:08, 1200x1200

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The baby deer wearing VR headsets symbolizes the inner child mesmerized by infinite desires, passions, and possibilities of the digital world and virtual reality. He also depicts the imminent future, in which VR headsets will turn into ubiquitous gadgets, the part of the reality where you can be whoever you want. Artist explores how technological progress has had an adverse impact on the psychological development of humans today. She investigates how gadgets and technologies change human behavior, consciousness, and perception of reality, and how humanity is obsessed with tech gadgets and explores their gestures and poses in relation to these objects. Using a neat palette and laconic textures, Olga situates her flat figures within shallow pictorial spaces. Her work repeatedly calls attention to the idea of the surface, which is apt since her imagery is focused on the complicated plexus between a space of reality and the virtual world.

 

GIRLS WITH FRIENDS WALKING IN PARK AT TOWNLEY GALLERY TRIBECA

Olga Feshina’s work Girls With Friends Walking In Park is exposed at group show at Townley Gallery, Tribeca, NYC.

"The Opening Show" January 2- January 31, 2020

Girls With Friends Walking In Park, 2019, New Tech Girls series, acrylic on canvas, 60 x 48 in / 152,5 x 122 cm

TOWNLEY GALLERY • 373 Broadway • New York • NY • 10013 (Tribeca)

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SOLO "NEW TECH GIRLS—BIKINI ISSUE” HAS BEEN EXTENDED UNTIL JULY 26TH!

News from NYA Gallery & Gallery 104:

- We’re thrilled to announce that Olga Feshina’s solo exhibition “New Tech Girls—Bikini Issue” has been extended until Friday, July 26th!*

This exceptional assembly of 11 paintings explores core motifs related to the artist’s ongoing series, namely beauty, image construction and distortion, identity, self-fashioning, and presentation. With these new paintings of scantily clad young girls posing with handheld devices, Feshina calls the viewer’s attention to the contrast between contemporary and historic portraiture poses, highlighting how restrictive codes of behavior change, migrate, and ultimately manifest themselves in visual culture.

If you haven’t had a chance to stop by the gallery to see the show, now is your chance! Check out the press coverage the exhibition has received by going to Feshina’s website, or by scrolling through our past Instagram posts to find relevant links. Visitors may see works during regular gallery hours: Monday through Sunday, 12-5pm. For more information, please call (917) 472-9015 or email info@newyorkart.com

*it was supposed to be on a view from July 04 to July 21

Olga Feshina at solo exhibition at NYA Gallery 104
 

SOLO NEW TECH GIRLS - BIKINI ISSUE ON A VIEW JULY 04 - 26 AT NEW YORK ART CENTER

Olga Feshina: New Tech Girls - Bikini Issue 

Solo exhibition

Gallery 104 and NYA Gallery

Exhibition Dates: July 4 - July 26, 2019 *

Opening reception: Wednesday, July 10th, 6-9pm

New York Art Center newyorkart.com: July 4th & 5th 2019 (6-9pm) - 1st Thursday’s Art Walk Every Month in TriBeCa from 6-9pm

“New Tech Girls” Series

Feshina began the “New Tech Girls” series in 2016 and has continued elaborating on this body of work over the past few years. She is fascinated with how technological progress has had an adverse impact on the nature and psychological development of women today. Specifically, she offers a compelling critique of how the paradigms of contemporary feminine beauty are created, distributed, and absorbed across digital devices and platforms. The artist uses a soft, muted palette to render flat figures that have a smooth, matte surface and are situated within shallow pictorial spaces. Her work repeatedly calls attention to the idea of surface, which is appropriate as her imagery is focused on the complicated dichotomy between the virtual world and reality.

Across canvases like Girls Taking Selfie on the Beach (2016) and Girls Taking Selfie in the Fitting Room (2016), Feshina positions highly idealized young women mimicking poses they’ve seen via social media; their actions in turn continue to perpetuate these postures in a never-ending cycle of vapid mimicry. The artist mines numerous media outlets in order to become familiar with the most common gestures, poses, and stances in circulation. What is more, her characters are often in synchronized postures, underscoring the loss of individual expression and identity due to the nearly ubiquitous forces of conformity that operate underneath the surface of every image on social media. Interestingly, in Girls Taking Selfie on the Beach, one of the girls holds a selfie stick, framing the overall painting as the screen of an iPhone. In other works, such as Girls with Friends Walking in Park (2019) and Girls Watching the Same Movie on the Beach (2017), the young, slim figures are together physically, but removed or distanced psychologically because they’re engaged in entirely different virtual realms.

The artist has described her female figures as twenty-first century versions of the nymphs of antiquity. In Greek mythology, nymphs presided over certain natural locales, such as oceans, mountains, lakes, rivers, and forests. Feshina’s technologically inclined nymphs similarly inhabit outfoor environs, but are often completely disconnected from these physical surroundings, inhabiting a digital forest instead, one populated computer-coded creatures. The artist’s insertion of a doe in many of these works further expands this idea of a digital forest or enchanted grove. As Feshina has explained, animals figure rather prominently in fairy tales—folkloric or literary forms that have a lasting impact on children’s conception of self and others. Within her artistic practice, she understands this animal as representing each figure’s inner child: innocent, naive, impressionable, and needing protection. In the diptych Girls Exploring Their Feminine Nature (2017) and Inner Child Watching VR (2018), the doe is seen as being corrupted by exposure to technology.

Overall, these paintings are a social commentary on how technology has facilitated the rapid construction and dissemination of implied codes of behavior about how girls should look and act. Her work touches on concepts of beauty, image construction and distortion, identity, self-fashioning, and presentation. 

Artist Bio

Olga Feshina grew up in Kazakhstan, where she trained as a fashion and costume designer. She was enrolled at Karaganda Art School and focused on painting and photography. Later, she studied contemporary costume design at Kazakh National Academy of Arts. One of her many accolades includes designing the world’s first sporting uniform for chess—a commission from the International Chess Federation (FIDE). Her training as a designer has heavily influenced her painting style, which includes formal aspects of cartoons and digital illustrations. In 2013, the interdisciplinary creative practitioner moved to New York.

Feshina has been featured in a number of notable publications, such as W Magazine, Esquire, FAD Magazine, Women Love Tech, Wallpaper, ELLE, and Bazaar. She has had solo exhibitions at Gallery Tvorchestvo (Moscow); the Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow); Paris sur Mode (Paris); and Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. Most recently, she exhibited works from her ongoing series “New Tech Girls” at Google’s offices in New York and at a booth for NYAFAIR in Tribeca. In July 2019, NYA Gallery will present a new body of work by the artist: “New Tech Girls—Bikini Issue.” There will be an opening reception for the public on Wednesday, July 10th, 6-9pm. The show will be on view from July 4th through July 26th.  

PS: The solo exhibit was extended from July 21 to 26.

Artist Feature: Olga Feshina - NYA Gallery | New York Art Center

 

SOLO EXHIBIT NEW TECH GIRLS - BIKINI ISSUE JULY 04 - JULY 21 AT NYA & GALLERY 104

In July 2019, collaboration NYA Gallery with Gallery 104 will present a new body of work by the artist: “New Tech Girls—Bikini Issue.” There will be an opening reception for the public on Wednesday, July 10th, 6-9pm. The show will be on view from July 4th until July 21st.

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Olga Feshina began the “New Tech Girls” series in 2016 and has continued elaborating on this body of work over the past few years. She is fascinated with how technological progress has had an adverse impact on the nature and psychological development of women today. Specifically, she offers a compelling critique of how the paradigms of contemporary feminine beauty are created, distributed, and absorbed across digital devices and platforms. The artist uses a soft, muted palette to render flat figures that have a smooth, matte surface and are situated within shallow pictorial spaces. Her work repeatedly calls attention to the idea of surface, which is appropriate as her imagery is focused on the complicated dichotomy between the virtual world and reality.

Across canvases like Girls Taking Selfie on the Beach (2016) and Girls Taking Selfie in the Fitting Room (2016), Feshina positions highly idealized young women mimicking poses they’ve seen via social media; their actions in turn continue to perpetuate these postures in a never-ending cycle of vapid mimicry. The artist mines numerous media outlets in order to become familiar with the most common gestures, poses, and stances in circulation. What is more, her characters are often in synchronized postures, underscoring the loss of individual expression and identity due to the nearly ubiquitous forces of conformity that operate underneath the surface of every image on social media. Interestingly, in Girls Taking Selfie on the Beach, one of the girls holds a selfie stick, framing the overall painting as the screen of an iPhone. In other works, such as Girls with Friends Walking in Park (2019) and Girls Watching the Same Movie on the Beach (2017), the young, slim figures are together physically, but removed or distanced psychologically because they’re engaged in entirely different virtual realms.

The artist has described her female figures as twenty-first century versions of the nymphs of antiquity. In Greek mythology, nymphs presided over certain natural locales, such as oceans, mountains, lakes, rivers, and forests. Feshina’s technologically inclined nymphs similarly inhabit outfoor environs, but are often completely disconnected from these physical surroundings, inhabiting a digital forest instead, one populated computer-coded creatures. The artist’s insertion of a doe in many of these works further expands this idea of a digital forest or enchanted grove. As Feshina has explained, animals figure rather prominently in fairy tales—folkloric or literary forms that have a lasting impact on children’s conception of self and others. Within her artistic practice, she understands this animal as representing each figure’s inner child: innocent, naive, impressionable, and needing protection. In the diptych Girls Exploring Their Feminine Nature (2017) and Inner Child Watching VR (2018), the doe is seen as being corrupted by exposure to technology.

Overall, these paintings are a social commentary on how technology has facilitated the rapid construction and dissemination of implied codes of behavior about how girls should look and act. Her work touches on concepts of beauty, image construction and distortion, identity, self-fashioning, and presentation.

In July 2019, collaboration NYA Gallery with Gallery 104 will present a new body of work by the artist: “New Tech Girls—Bikini Issue.” There will be an opening reception for the public on Wednesday, July 10th, 6-9pm. The show will be on view from July 4th until July 21st.

Tony Huffman, Independent Curator & Critic

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ARTIST TALK AT OPENING SOLO EXHIBIT NEW TECH GIRLS AT GOOGLE NEW YORK

Artist Talk at solo exhibition Olga Feshina: New Tech Girls - Vr Friends in Google New York

April 23, 2019, Google New York, US

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NEW TECH GIRLS CLOSED PREVIEW SHOW AT TRANSFORMING APARTMENT

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Transforming Apartment, Upper Manhattan, New York, 08.05.2018

“I'm an artist, who is fascinated with new technologies and gadgets. The characters of my paintings are either contemporary girls or young women, who grow up actively and comprehend their inner and external worlds by means of gadgets and technological innovations. They made selfies revolution in social net, exploring contemporary tech reality, and their new poses and gestures are getting contemporary classics.

I'm trying to track the temporary connection portraying the same nymphs with their new poses and gestures in they new personification or reincarnation and research how they are deeply involved in technological innovation. The inner child of new girls which baby deer symbolizes it for me is mesmerized with the perfection of the digital and virtual world. I am interested why they even explore their self and feminine gist with virtual reality.”

– Olga Feshina said,

“Nowadays, when computer programs imitate artist technique, I stylize bodies and generalize facial features emphasizing a wide frozen smile and eyes imitating digital pics. However, there is nothing digital in my paintings of New Tech Girls series, other than only a digital topic."