Kitchen Talk 13
@sashamko
“Miasnikova’s paintings hold their own feeling close to their chests and their legs crossed, faces blurred except for a flush on the apples of the cheeks, and a hand seemingly always available to brush away stray hairs.”
Introduce yourself, list three things we need to know about you or your practice.
My name is Sasha. I am a painter from New York City, where I currently live. I went to the Art Institute of Chicago
What’s your creative process?
I start gathering images in general and group them together per painting. I go off of one initial point of interest, then build the rest of the composition through a drawing. Then I go bigger on a panel with brown paper stretched over it, then paint.
What factors have influenced your creation?
Shopping, ads, objects, movies, chores, furniture, folk art
How does your medium govern your artistic practice?
The drawing determines the content and the paint determines its character
What’s a standard studio day for you?
Any studio day is compromise and cooperation!
What’s been on your mind lately?
Dawson's Creek
How’s life outside of studio?
Exciting!
Share one favorite item of yours.
My stools
Plans for the future?
Another Room Service perfume on the way
And finally, how do you like your eggs?
Quick soft scrambled nice amount of butter.
Sasha Miasnikova (b.1999, New York, NY) is an artist lives and works in in New York. She received her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2021. Recent group exhibitions include George Adams Gallery (New York, NY), Upstate Art Weekend (Ghent, New York) with Macedonia Institute, and Iowa Projects (New York, NY) with Kira Scerbin and Emma Schwartz.