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.

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.