Kruglyanskaya's cartoon-like characters are friends and 'frienemies' down at the beach, out-and-about, running from a menacing presence: enforced neighbours butting against each other in the tight space of the stretched canvas.
These buxom women anticipate an audience, exaggerating both voyeurism and exhibitionism, confronting cultural tropes with bawdy humour. Kruglyanskaya’s paintings vigorously play with the female form, female sexuality and social interaction.
Ella Kruglyanskaya is Latvian born and New York based. This book documents her first exhibition in a public gallery outside of the United States, and documents her work from the last five years.
Published on the occasion of the exhibition How to work together: Ella Kruglyanskaya at Studio Voltaire, London, 11 April – 8 June 2014. |