If You Are In Baltimore Between March 19th And April 17th Come See My New Show Placeholder At The Carver Gallery Inside This Incredible School For Visual And Performing Arts. I Got A Chance To Visit With The Students And Do An Artists Talk Thanks To Daria Souvorova And Her Hospitality!

I am very proud to be part of this juried exhibition at the Bakehouse Art Complex in Miami, FL. It is based on Thomas Lawson's essay on the status of painting written 35 years ago. Lawson's text put painters on the defense, holding each artist accountable for their choice of medium. It is as relevant today as when he first wrote it- Last Exit:Painting by Thomas Lawson

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Urban Arts Space Presents The Work Of Graduating Ohio State University Department Of Art, Master Of Fine Arts Candidates. The Product Of Three Years Of Intensive Studio Work, Research, And Experimentation, This Exhibition Highlights The Accomplishments Of A Diverse Group Of Emerging Artists

Boryana Rusenova-Ina paints collages bound by light. Using images of both the Bulgarian landscape of her youth and of places she has never traveled, she constructs small dioramas in her studio out of postcards, snapshots, and other pictures she finds or makes. Lighting these like miniature stage sets to unite the disparate parts, she then paints what she sees: an image that is both constructed and organic, real and imagined.

Her paintings present as a unified landscape—comfortable and coherent—and yet they maintain the unsettling suggestion that they might, at any moment, rupture our expectations and fly apart. Delicately surreal, Rusenova-Ina’s work speaks to both how tenuous and how fundamental our relationship with place can be.

I spoke with Boryana Rusenova-Ina in the OSU Digital Union’s recording studio. We talked about being foreigners in America, buying into images of unfamiliar places, and her unlikely arrival as an artist.

-Suzannah Showler