Articles by Natasha Dikareva

Teapots!11

If you’re in the Pittsburgh area this Friday, come see the teapot interpreted by over 60 artists in the 11th annual Teapot Invitational at Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery! Two of my teapots were chosen to be part of this great show.

I don’t know if it is my Eastern European roots, bathed in a constant stream of tea since childhood, or the chance to play with the suggestive forms of spouts and handles, but I love making teapots! These swan fairies might reveal the answers for which you have been longing with the right brew inside them.
Opening reception is April 7th 5:30-8:30 pm. Show runs April 7 to June 10.

Morgan Contemporary Glass Gallery

5833 Ellsworth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15232
Phone: 412.441.5200

 

‘Zone In’ with Paige Wright at Oregon’s Finest in Portland

Portland Show Open Through March 25th

I’m very excited to announce our latest venue show, currently up and running at Oregon’s Finest in Portland, Oregon. I’ve partnered with local Portland sculptor Paige Wright for this exhibition, and we’re fortunate enough to be located directly across the street from the Oregon Convention Center, where the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts’ (NCECA) 51st Annual Conference (Future Flux) takes place March 22nd through the 25th.

Much like mine, Paige Wright’s work touches on the profound effects of environment on human beings, meditating on biological, climatological and social transformation, and posing questions of identity and collective awareness. We both favor traditional clay techniques and work with multi-layered surfaces that evoke both antiquity and mortality. As ever, the best work reflects the changing social, cultural and ecological environment from which it springs, and this is our common goal.

Entitled ‘Zone In,’ the work in the exhibition explores issues of transformation, sustainability and the tension between permanence and changing modes in the evolving global community. And NCECA’s Future Flux is the perfect place for us to connect with the public and other artists. At well over 5,000 attendees, this is the largest event of its kind each year. It’s going to be an eye-opening, inspiring four days of workshops, lectures and the most talented exhibitors in the country. We’re proud to be part of it, and we’d love for you to join us.

The exhibition runs through the end of the NCECA conference, which will be held March 22-25.

Zone In: Natasha Dikareva and Paige Wright
Oregon’s Finest
736 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
Portland, OR  97232

 

 

“Zone In” Portland exhibit opening March 2

Friends!

I am excited to announce the opening of my two-person show in Portland, OR next week. Teaming up with the talented Paige Wright, we are taking over Oregon’s Finest, a great venue for our sculptures exploring identity and reverie. Stop by and say hello if you are in the area! Opening reception is
Thursday, March 2nd from 5-9pm at
Oregon’s Finest
736 NE Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Portland, Oregon 97232
Press release:

The work of Natasha Dikareva and Paige Wright reflects a meeting of two communities. In both, the figure anchors ideas of response, ranging from the biological, to the social, to the spiritual and contemplative.

Their rigorous practice is rooted in traditional clay techniques, anatomical rendering and multi-layered surface treatment. Building on this approach, both artists use the figurative as a launchpad into unexpected territory. The sculptures of Dikareva and Wright reflect upon their own origins and the possible future paths of their individual lives, as well as of the collective humanity. Keeping one foot rooted in tradition and the other exploring contemporary emblems, both artists straddle a spider web of conversations, helping to continually examine and develop more nuanced relationships to each other and ourselves.

The exhibition runs through April 4th and is part of the NCECA clay conference.

Welcome To My Blog!

Welcome! Today marks the launch of my new DikarevArt Blog. As a ceramic sculptor and installation artist living in San Francisco, I am constantly creating, and my work is ever-changing. My blog will regularly showcase my newest works, both during their fabrication and as finished pieces.

Sharing here some of the esoteric processes and techniques that I employ will serve to give readers a clearer insight into my creative approach. I will also shine a light on the work of other accomplished artists I admire in various genres, and explore some of the daily inspirations that feed and inform my creativity.

Through the new blog, I’ll also keep readers up to date on upcoming exhibitions, ensuring you know exactly when and where to see my latest works. A clearing house for all things DikarevArt, this blog will be the single best way to stay up to date on my creative output and development as an artist.

Alice: Positive Anxiety by Natasha Dikareva

Entitled Alice: Positive Anxiety, the new piece you see in the photo above was completed during the tumult of the recent election. Hand built in the whitest porcelain and finished with china painting, it is a work imbued with complex, conflicting emotions. Though Alice’s despair is evident in her pose and the mascara that colors her cheeks, a diminished hope still radiates from her eyes; one hand held over her mouth in surprise, in her other she holds a butterfly, a symbol of the ephemerality of happiness.

Juxtaposing smoothly finished surfaces with raw textures that evoke fossils and found objects, this piece is at once optimistic and melancholy, condensing longing, loss and desire into a statement of resilience and possibility.

For a look at other finished artworks from my Escapists series click here, and don’t forget to visit dikarevart.com often to see my latest work.

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