An hour long lecture with visiting Pleasure & Protest artist Yana Payusova.
Yana Payusova’s work reflects both her cultural heritage and training in traditional Russian realist painting, and it blends the styles and symbols of folk art, icons, graphic posters, illustration, and comics.
The mundane activities depicted on her ceramic tiles or vessels, such as women doing the washing up or sitting under the hairdryer at the salon, are countered by gold luster highlights.
Through this gesture, Payusova’s ordinary heroines become mythical protagonists in painted three-dimensional form.
Yana Payusova was born in Leningrad, USSR and she received an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Her work has been presented nationally and internationally including recent exhibitions at the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis; Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston; Tucson Museum of Art; Conduit Gallery, Dallas; and, the New Taipei City Yingge Ceramics Museum, Taiwan.
In 2021 Payusova was artist-in-residence at the Guldagergaard International Ceramic Research Center, Denmark, as well as a Visiting Artist at the Anderson Ranch Art Center, Snowmass.
She recently completed a commissioned installation for Real Unreal, Meow Wolf’s fourth permanent exhibit, in Grapevine, Texas.
Payusova is an Assistant Professor of Practice and FYE Program Chair at the School of Art, University of Arizona in Tucson
Tickets to this event are FREE
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The lecture will be taking place in the Chapman Auditorium at the Ent Center for the Arts, seating is limited so it's best to register ahead of time
2024/04/12 - 2024/04/12
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The UCCS Visiting Artists & Critics Series features a lineup of presentations by artists and critics of national and international significance.
The program’s goal is to foster understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through dialogue and critical conversations.
Each VACS lecture takes place in the Chapman Foundation Recital Hall, next door to the Marie Walsh Sharpe Gallery in the Ent Center for the Arts.
High-quality video recordings of each lecture are made public and archived on GOCA’s digital content platform within two weeks of each event (GOCAdigital.org).
Over the past decade, the series co-produced by the UCCS Galleries of Contemporary Art and UCCS Visual Art & Art History programs has invited artists and scholars to the UCCS campus to present public lectures and meet with undergraduate students in classes and workshop settings.
The series is generously supported by the CU President’s Fund for the Humanities, Colorado Creative Industries, UCCS Student Government Association, and the Bee Vradenburg Foundation.
* Event durations (if noted) are approximate.
Please check with the presenting organization or venue to confirm start times and duration.
Ent Center for the Arts
5225 N Nevada Ave, Colorado Springs, CO 80918