Red Alert for Blue Longing, 2020
SOLD
Lapis Lazuli Night Waters Big Blue Calling, 2019
SOLD
Vast Country Land, Sky, Ocean, 2020
SOLD
Dreams on Pause Please Hold For The Next Available Piper , 2020
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Early Morning Expectations, 2020
Fairy Floss Landscape Longing, 2020
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Andjana Pachkova
Red Alert for Blue Longing, 2020
Acrylics, enamel paint, oil crayons on canvas
190 x 155 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Lapis Lazuli Night Waters Big Blue Calling, 2019
Acrylics, oil paint, oil crayons, mixed media on canvas
155 x 190 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Vast Country Land, Sky, Ocean, 2020
Acrylics, oils, mixed media on canvas
152.5 x 183 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Dreams on Pause Please Hold For The Next Available Piper , 2020
Acrylics, mixed media on canvas
155 x 190 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Early Morning Expectations, 2020
Acrylics, mixed media on canvas
175 x 200 cm
Andjana Pachkova
Fairy Floss Landscape Longing, 2020
Acrylics, oils, mixed media on canvas
155 x 190 cm
SOLD
Fernweh: Into the Blue continues Andjana Pachkova’s exploration of longing in her 2nd solo exhibition at Stanley Street Gallery. 'Fernweh' means far-sickness, or longing for far-away, unexplored places. It is, in a way, nostalgia for what has never been, or more precisely for where one has never been.
“This topic is especially prescient due to the events that unfolded internationally in the year of 2020”. - Andjana Pachkova
The Ukrainian-born, Russian-raised and American-educated artist has been considering the concept of fernweh and gaining inspiration from her newly found passion for surfing Australia’s east coast.
Words by Richard Goodwin (2020)
Andjana Pachkova’s last exhibition was titled “Fernweh”, which is German for a longing for faraway places. Freedom. Unsurprising that she is a Russian painter and lawyer residing in Byron Bay and Sydney and exhibiting in Sydney and overseas.
Freedom of movement.
But whose freedom are we really addressing and where does it come from?
So here we are in our Post-Modern shutdown. We have a burgeoning of Indigenous art within the latest Biennale. Also, we have the new threats of the coronavirus and climate change to match Modernism’s two wars.
Her lineage is anchored to:
De Kooning”s lyrical sweeping gestures and the violent collapse of his women.
George Baselitz’s axe-like slashes and upside-down-ness.
These paintings respect their roots but be in no doubt as to their intention to break the rule that art can’t happen on holidays. They are playful.
AP is pure energy and Russian resilience. Always swimming and surfing and determined to do it well, she exposes herself to the chaos and luminosity of the ocean as though it were her palette. The antithesis of Claude Monet, who made Lily Ponds out of blindness and immobility, AP is a streak of lightening, a shooting star.
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Andjana Pachkova: Artist Statement & Bio
Andjana Pachkova is captivated by the never-ending dance of nature and the human; passionate and loving to be sure, yet also violent and at times exploitative. Her painting practice is firmly grounded in the intuitive, responding to the invisible and the ephemeral, to landscapes both travelled and felt. Her process follows the flow of substance, finding a place for herself that is liquid, fluid and moving very quickly. Interested in the infinite and treacherous possibility of water and surface, her painting practice explores the mutual interaction of the human and the landscape, how they move to shape and touch each other.
Born in Ukraine, Andjana Pachkova comes from a traditional Russian art tutoring background. Following the political movement Perestroika, she moved to Moscow and took classes at Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts.
In 1997 Pachkova won the prestigious Davis Fellowship and subsequently moved to the United States. Alongside her academic studies, Andjana developed a drawing and painting practice informed by a passion for human relationships to landscape, in particular exploring the subtle changes in human psyche that occur when a person moves through a series of places. Andjana took art courses both at Dartmouth Colledge, New Hampshire and NYU, New York.
Grounded in the intuitive, Andjana’s paintings team with passion, submerging the viewer in an active experience of movement and self- actualisation. Responding to both invisible and ephemeral connection, to topographies both travelled and felt, her practice explores the mutual interaction of human within the landscape, how they move to shape and touch each other. Recently interested in the infinite and treacherous possibility of oceanscapes, her works and painting process have taken on the turbulence of substance, of flowing paint and swirling water, to find a place for herself on canvas that is fluid and living.
Pachkova has studied with notable artists such as Idris Murphy, Jo Bertini, Brandt Lewis, Denis Clarke and Tony Tozer. Upon her move to Australia in 2013, she began to exhibit her work in Sydney and since 2017 has been represented by Stanley Street Gallery in New South Wales.
Andjana's works are held in private collections across the United States, including Harvard Law faculty in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Israel and Lebanon.
Andjana Pachkova: CV April, 2024 Download
Born in Ukraine, Andjana Pachkova moved to Moscow and studied at the Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts.
In 1997 Pachkova won the prestigious Davis Fellowship and subsequently moved to the United States. Alongside her academic studies, Andjana developed a drawing and painting practice informed by a passion for human relationships to landscape, in particular exploring the subtle changes in human psyche that occur when a person moves through a series of places.
Pachkova has studied with notable artists such as Idris Murphy, Jo Bertini, Brandt Lewis, Denis Clarke and Tony Tozer. Upon her move to Australia in 2013, she began to exhibit her drawing and painting in Sydney and since 2017 has been represented by Stanley Street Gallery in New South Wales.
Andjana's works are held in private collections across the United States, including Harvard Law faculty in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Iceland, Finland, Israel and Lebanon.
Education
Solo exhibitions
Group exhibitions
Awards and achievements
Residencies & Workshops
Collections
Andjana’s works are held in private collections across the United States, including by a Harvard Law faculty in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Russia, all over Australia, Iceland, Finland, Israel and Lebanon, as well as New Zealand and displayed in corporate offices in Sydney CBD.
Reviews and publicity
Film/TV Appearances:
Several of Andjana’s paintings appeared in season two of the TV show “Secret City” on Foxtel and Nextflix in 2019 (with Oscars nominee for Best Supporting Actress Jackie Weever).
Several of Andjana’s works from the solo show 'Die Sehnsucht' appeared in the TV show “Between Two Worlds” in 2020.
Andjana’s work from 'Die Sehnsucht' also appeared in the 2022 Marvel film “Thor: Love and Thunder”.
Music Album Cover Commissions:
Reza Naeemi “Fernweh”, June 2020
Clay Hodges “Dancing with the Devil”, April, 2019
Reza Naeemi: Castle in the Sky, July 1, 2018
The Best Pessimist: Drawing the Endless Shore, DRAMA November 2017
MUUI: Seminal relased on MicroCastle, February 2017
Paranoid Dancer/Patrik Carrera: Vacant, January 2017
Paranoid Dancer/Patrik Carrera: Type 7-9, December 2016
Paranoid Dancer/Patrik Carrera Whim, December 2016
Paranoid Dancer: Reset November 2016
Directorships and Community Involvement:
In 2017 Andjana Pachkova was elected to the Board of Director of Workshop Art Center in Willoughby, Sydney area, Andjana served as the Chairwoman on the Programming Committee of the board until January 2019.
Jacquie Meng, Andjana Pachkova, Lucy Chetcuti, Denis Clarke & Andrew Sullivan
ON EXHIBITION
July 4-August 10, 2024
E-Catalogue for Fernweh: Into the Blue
Fernweh: Into the Blue