Sunlight — Castle in the Sky, 2022
SOLD
Crescent Head Blushing, 2022
AVAILABLE
Moonrise Kissing — He and She Series, 2022
SOLD
Fairy Floss Castle, 2021
AVAILABLE
Falling Castles — Ladders to Nowhere, 2022
Swirling Waters — Goodbye Lucy, 2022
SOLD
Inverted Castles, 2022
SOLD
Dark Castles (left) & The Falling House of Cards (right) Diptych, 2022
AVAILABLE
Dark Castle (diptych left side), 2021
AVAILABLE
The Falling House of Cards (diptych right side), 2022
AVAILABLE
Andjana Pachkova
Sunlight — Castle in the Sky, 2022
Oils, acrylics and oil sticks on canvas
195 x 160 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Crescent Head Blushing, 2022
Oils, acrylics and oil sticks on canvas
175 x 195 cm
AVAILABLE $5,700
Andjana Pachkova
Moonrise Kissing — He and She Series, 2022
Oils, acrylics and oil sticks on canvas
195 x 160 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Fairy Floss Castle, 2021
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 195 cm
AVAILABLE $5,700
Andjana Pachkova
Falling Castles — Ladders to Nowhere, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 195 cm
Andjana Pachkova
Swirling Waters — Goodbye Lucy, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 195 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Inverted Castles, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 195 cm
SOLD
Andjana Pachkova
Dark Castles (left) & The Falling House of Cards (right) Diptych, 2022
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 390 cm
AVAILABLE $11,400
Andjana Pachkova
Dark Castle (diptych left side), 2021
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 195 cm
AVAILABLE $0
Andjana Pachkova
The Falling House of Cards (diptych right side), 2022
Mixed media on canvas
175 x 195 cm
AVAILABLE $0
From Light to Dark is Andjana Pachkova’s third solo exhibition exploring her relationship with oceanscapes, self and other - the strata of the ocean perhaps a metaphor of the human psyche. Grounded in the intuitive, Andjana’s paintings team with passion, submerging the viewer in an active experience of movement and self-actualisation.
Landscape painting has long traditions in the pictorial depiction of nature; the shadow of light; trees in a meadow; criss-crossing waterways. However, you won’t find a realistic render of landscape in Pachkova’s latest body of work. It is not the contours of the land, nor the colours or textures that interest the artist but rather the way a sense of place permeates the heart. For Andjana, “landscape is a repository of memory. Travel through landscape allows us literally to get from place to place and also from a moment in time to another moment in time”. To capture what it feels like to be in a landscape one has to consider the body in landscape. Am I on it and outside of it (mountain climbing, walking, sailing) or am I actively in it (swimming,surfing), how do I feel here? An artist who has traversed many continents, moved in different places, her preoccupation with landscape is also tied to a sense of self and identity and how our identity is formed over time by being in a place and actively engaging with it. Each place travelled leaving its mark, a fragment, a layer from which one can build.
"Generated over three tumultuous years, this new collection of works are both intensely personal and resolutely bold. A public expression of private themes. As a painter her works come out of the lineage of strong Modernist forebears and her own original experience as an artist who surfs at dawn and then wrestles her forms, informed by a process that is both visceral and physical."
- an excerpt from Anna Johnson's exhbition essay for 'From Light to Dark'
Click here to read the full essay
Installation images by Docqment
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 From Light to Dark by Andjana Pachkova
From Light to Dark by Andjana Pachkova