A short illustration clip of outsider artist Yelena Barbalich at work in the studio of Art Compass. TRT: 00:43
Monday, April 23, 2007
Yelena Barbalich: Biography
Born 1975 –
Wellington, New Zealand.
Yelena is unable to explain her creative processes due to her impairment. However it is evident by looking at her extensive body of work that she is constantly developing and experimenting with media and designs. She never erases or reworks, she accepts her art as it flows out of her with complete confidence.
Triangles can ripple in nets, radiate like suns, and branch into streams. She can switch between the delicacy of a single ink tendril showing the way for a shoal of lines, to large choreographed fields of rhythm and color. Though barely able to write her name, she ‘writes’ intricate patterns. Her work is complex as she layers and juxtaposes patterns and color.
Yelena is a self-taught artist driven to engage in creative processes that are uniquely hers, and hers alone. Since 2001 she has been coming to Art Compass Studio-Gallery where she makes her art in the company of peers (impaired and non-impaired artists), while she continues to work at home.Exhibitions:
Exhibition:
-2006 10 Haining Street, gift gallery, Wellington
-2005 Diversity, 91 Aro Gallery, Wellington, group exhibition
-2004 Choreography, Grodentz Works on Paper, Wellington, solo exhibition
-2003 Little Mince Pies, ROAR gallery, Wellington, group exhibition
-2003 Multiplications, Art Compass, Wellington, group exhibition
-2003 Y.B. Yelena, Art Compass, Wellington, solo exhibition
-2002 Until proven, Art Compass, Wellington, group exhibition
-2002 Black Sheep, ROAR gallery, Wellington, group exhibition
-2001 Self-Taught and Visionary, Idiom Studio, Wellington, group exhibition
Yelena was a member of Art Compass, an innovative Studio-Gallery supporting artists with intellectual disabilities in Wellington, New Zealand, from 2001 when it first opened till 2006 when it was forced to close due to lack of funding. Yelena continues to make art at home today.
Y.B. Yelena, solo exhibition Art Compass gallery:
Wellington, New Zealand.
Yelena is unable to explain her creative processes due to her impairment. However it is evident by looking at her extensive body of work that she is constantly developing and experimenting with media and designs. She never erases or reworks, she accepts her art as it flows out of her with complete confidence.
Triangles can ripple in nets, radiate like suns, and branch into streams. She can switch between the delicacy of a single ink tendril showing the way for a shoal of lines, to large choreographed fields of rhythm and color. Though barely able to write her name, she ‘writes’ intricate patterns. Her work is complex as she layers and juxtaposes patterns and color.
Yelena is a self-taught artist driven to engage in creative processes that are uniquely hers, and hers alone. Since 2001 she has been coming to Art Compass Studio-Gallery where she makes her art in the company of peers (impaired and non-impaired artists), while she continues to work at home.Exhibitions:
Exhibition:
-2006 10 Haining Street, gift gallery, Wellington
-2005 Diversity, 91 Aro Gallery, Wellington, group exhibition
-2004 Choreography, Grodentz Works on Paper, Wellington, solo exhibition
-2003 Little Mince Pies, ROAR gallery, Wellington, group exhibition
-2003 Multiplications, Art Compass, Wellington, group exhibition
-2003 Y.B. Yelena, Art Compass, Wellington, solo exhibition
-2002 Until proven, Art Compass, Wellington, group exhibition
-2002 Black Sheep, ROAR gallery, Wellington, group exhibition
-2001 Self-Taught and Visionary, Idiom Studio, Wellington, group exhibition
Yelena was a member of Art Compass, an innovative Studio-Gallery supporting artists with intellectual disabilities in Wellington, New Zealand, from 2001 when it first opened till 2006 when it was forced to close due to lack of funding. Yelena continues to make art at home today.
Y.B. Yelena, solo exhibition Art Compass gallery:
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