blackbird online journal spring 2002 vol.1 no. 1

 

KARINA PEISAJOVICH  |  Painting, Light, & Shadow

I will show you some images of my work, kind of chronologically. I’m a painter, and I started painting with oil on canvas, and then I moved to the space. I'm going to show you all the transition of my work and some videos.

The first body of work I started to do was self-portraits, but I wasn’t interested in self-portraits. I was mostly working with performing in the paintings.

 Brown Composite,
 Oil on canvas
 135 x 175 cm
 1997

In this period I started to work with the turtle, and I used the shell of the turtle as the dress of the figures. I like the shell of the turtle. I like it because it makes me remember—like a floor, like a furniture; I like the geometric design.

This painting is called Blue Light Blue, Light Blue, White. I was thinking in water turtles.

 Blue Light Blue, Light Blue, White
 
Oil on canvas
 63 x 120 cm
 1998