Artist Statement
In my practice, I mine my lived experiences for pivotal moments either nostalgic or haunting feelings. Using themes of love, living in New York, death, grief, loss and the mythology of the afterlife that has coexisted in my life. I seek to distill these abstract and complicated memories and narratives via the use of concise and graphic compositions. I’m attracted to the punchy effective visual language of graphic novels and deploy similar compositional strategies for story telling in my work. I attempt to coax meaning out of the mixing / matching of a limited image economy populated by the Statue of Lliberty, protagonists looking “into” the painting, figures embracing each other and city skylines.
B.1995 in San Francisco, CA. Sasha Zirulnik attended the San Francisco Art Institute and graduated in 2017 with a BFA in sculpture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She has shown and curated exhibitions in New York, Zurich, Massachusetts, California and Oregon.
