PAINTINGS

LAYERED FIELDS. N I C O L I A.

Layered Fields of N I C O L I A by Olga Feshina - series of psychedelic paintings, visuals, video and digital graphics.

N I C O L I A is a space Neuro Intelligence Consciousness Of Love In Art, where artist Olga Feshina explore and visualizes patterns of sacred meaning. She create new art works with combination her analog paintings and digital clones transforming them to messages - images of frequencies, waves and fluctuations of the perception of reality through meditation.

Olga Feshina: “This is all about music, meditation and structure of high mind, my cozy corner of consciousness and my sacred cave.”

Sacred Frequencies. Meditation. digital graphic, 2023

NEW BODY OF OLGA FESHINA'S WORK IS "ICE BALANCE. SELFIE WITH MASK"

A new body of Olga Feshina’s work is three-dimensional work “Ice Balance. Selfie with Mask.”. The instalation includes a mix of painting with suspended objects that transform the perception of art in a limited space. Curator is Lucy McCarron. In the work, the artist goes on developing tech topic imitating computer technique with  painting and shape of icicles and hoarfrost with objects. The suspensions are made of crystal stone, silver, silicone and her typical plexiglass pendants, most of which are made of recycled materials. Feshina depicts a frozen smile like abstract landscape on the painting which looks like smirk. The artist focuses on the problem of ice balance on the Planet and restricting the excessive use of plastic and technology. Otherwise, humanity will have to be content with polyethylene and polyurethane imitations of landscapes very soon.

Olga Feshina is an artist and jewelry designer who invistigates situation with obsession of tech gadgets and the impact technology has on the psyche of modern woman and develops it in her works. She has had shows “The Internet” at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture (Moscow); Paris sur Mode (Paris); and “Icicles” at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia. She created the world’s first sporting uniform for chess—a commission from the International Chess Federation (FIDE). In 2019, her works from ongoing series “New Tech Girls” were exhibited at Google’s offices in New York, at a booth for NYAFAIR in Tribeca. Most recently, NYA  and Gallery 104 presented solo exhibition by the artist. Feshina has been featured in a number of publications, such as W Magazine, Esquire, Wallpaper, ELLE, Bazaar, FAD Magazine, Cosmopolitan, and others.

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Olga Feshina, Ice Balance, 2020, acrylic on canvas, 40 x 30 in
 

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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Girls With Friends Walking In Park By Olga Feshina
 

GIRL WITH FRIEND WATCHING VR IN TOWNLEY GALLERY TRIBECA

Girl With Friends Watching VR, 2018, New Tech Girls Series, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 48 in / 61 x 122 cm

Girl With Friends Watching VR, 2018, New Tech Girls Series, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 48 in / 61 x 122 cm

Now work Girl With Friend Watching VR  by Olga Feshina is exposed in Townley Gallery in TriBeCa at group show. The painting is one work of ongoing series New Tech Girls. The animals depicted - deer, dog, and cat - serve as the girls' companions and appear to be part of the reality where you can be whoever you want. They also depict the imminent future, in which VR headsets will turn into ubiquitous gadgets. In the future, dogs may have their own headsets instead of collars.

Townley Gallery was founded in 2009 and moved to TriBeCa in the beginning of 2019 and is now expanding to Broadway in Jan 2020 with an additional 4000 sq. ft.

Showing: ‪Nov 7 - Nov 30 2019‬ (12-5PM)

Reception: ‪Thursday, November 7 2019 (6-9PM‬), RSVP www.townleygallery.com

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Townley Gallery: 373 Broadway Tribeca, New York, entrance from New York Art Center, 7 Franklin Place, Tribeca, New York, NY 10013

Girl With Friends Watching VR, 2018, New Tech Girls Series, acrylic on canvas, 24 x 48 in / 61 x 122 cm

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GIRLS EXPLORING THE UNDERWATER WORLD AT 1STDIBS FROM GALLERY 104

A painting Girls Exploring The Underwater World by Olga Feshina moved from solo exhibition at Gallery 104 into Gallery 1stdibs at satellite of Gallery 104. You can see it at group August show 1stdibs Chelsea Monday through Saturday 10:00 to 6:00pm.

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Girls Exploring The Underwater World, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in / 121,92 x 91,5 cm

Girls Exploring The Underwater World, 2017, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 36 in / 121,92 x 91,5 cm

 

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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NEW TECH GIRLS AT 1STDIBS GALLERY IN CHELSEA AND IN 104 GALLERY DURING JUNE

You can view some of the paintings from Olga Feshina’s “New Tech Girls” series at Gallery 104’s satellite location at the 1stDibs Design Center in Chelsea Monday through Friday between the hours of 10am and 6pm.

As well, her work is on display or private view by appointment at NYA Gallery at 7 Franklin Place in Tribeca, with viewing hours Monday through Sunday, 12-5pm.

Olga Feshina at 1stdibs Gallery Chelsea NY