Gusakova, Anna

Address: 975 Vernon Dr. , Suite: 1
Medium:
Drawing/Painting/Sculpture
Bio:
My creative process starts with the visuals born inside me. Inspired by sensations, feelings, ideas, objects, animals, people, everything around me. Some ideas come as ready to implement visual structures. Some are carried inside me for a long time patiently waiting to bloom. Before I start making a piece, its visual structure first gets tested and approved by my heart and mind. At the beginning, images are often very figurative. As the process continues, they may stay figurative or undergo transformation, but rarely become absolutely abstract. I explore how far I can go in my creative process of transforming the object, and yet keep it recognizable. From the very beginning all of my inner images are materialized into the clear final form. Again, some creations like Bunnies do appear in different forms – both as sculpture and painting. Those to be born as sculptures have a three-dimensional look from the beginning. The ones to come up as paintings, or drawings, are seen like two-dimensional images with backgrounds. The important thing is that they never change the form during the process. My recent collaborative project with photographer Milos Tosic examines the possibilities of coexistence of my sculptures, and the surrounding world. The sculptures are extracted from their usual isolated habitats: gallery space or artist’s studio and immersed into situations where they usually don’t belong. I see sculptures as actors playing their own roles within the situation offered. I see the synthesis of photography, sculpture and installation as the new promising way of exploration of artistic creativity.