Newcastle University

Ella Kruglyanskaya’s exuberant paintings are full of very colourful women. They 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. Predominately working in oil on canvas and egg tempera on wooden panels, there is strong graphic sensibility. Kruglyanskaya’s women are somewhat cartoon-like, appearing flatly within the picture plane and parodying a particular representation of female sexuality and social interaction.

Ella Kruglyanskaya (Born 1978, Riga, Latvia. Lives and works in New York) received her BFA at Cooper Union in 2001, and her MFA at Yale School of Art in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions at Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2013), Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (2012), Salon 94, New York (2011) and White Columns, NY (2010).