Recommended: Zoya Cherkassy and Anna Lukashevsky at Rosenfeld Gallery

Zoya Cherkassy, Self Portrait, 2011- Feature

 

This thursday, I visited Zoya Cherkassy‘s and Anna Lukashevsky‘s joint exhibition at Rosenfeld Gallery.

The exhibition, a dialogue between these two artists, offer a peek to the artists’ way of working. Moving from the studio to the outdoor world, back and forth, they ask the eternal question of how to draw and what it really means.

Anna Lukashevsky and Zoya Cherkassy draw day to day scenes and portraits from their specific perspective.

Still-lives, the sea, Rotschild Boulevard during the social protests last summer, a bus station, women in the streets and more are all portrayed in what can recall a fauvist and almost naive style.

Anna Lukashevsky, Kibbutz Galuyot, 2011

Anna Lukashevsky, Kibbutz Galuyot, 2011

The portraits, both by Cherkassy and Lukashevsky, are on a borderline between realistic and caricatural portraiture. They capture a moment, the expression, the body language, but are still not simply a mere copy of the reality as they have something radical, extreme and sometimes even ironic about them.

Zoya Cherkassy, Puffer Coat, 2011

Zoya Cherkassy, Puffer Coat, 2011

Anna Lukashevsky, Rufina, 2011

Anna Lukashevsky, Rufina, 2011 (this one is my favorite probably because I know the model who is my very dear friend)

Zoya Cherkassy and Anna Lukashevsky
Rosenfeld Gallery
until February 25th, 2012

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