Gallery
Immigrating City
Chicago, 2007
Immigrating City puts Chicago in the limelight along with many of its notable icons: The El, Lake Michigan, the city’s diversity, and even biking culture.
Die, Mauer
(Chicago, 2009) 20th Anniversary rof the Fall of the Berlin Wall—Harper College, DANK Haus German Cultural Center
Originally commissioned by Harper College, this installation titled "Die, Mauer," commemorates the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It is currently housed at Chicago's DANK-Haus German Cultural Center.
Transparency Projects
(NYC, 2011) 25th Anniversary of Chernobyl—KGB Bar, National Arts Club, New York Post
Exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of Chernobyl promoting active democracy and transparency as tools that empower individuals within their political systems. On display at NYC's KGB Bar through June 2011. Her portrait of Malcolm X is part of the collection at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center in Washington Heights, in the Audubon Theater where Dr. X was assassinated.
Spoils of War: Ode to a Refusenik Mother
(NYC, 2012) Tablet Magazine, National Arts Club, Franklin Park Reading Series
“Spoils of War” is a poem illustrated by a series of panels commemorating the artist’s mother’s 1988 immigration from the Soviet Union to Chicago. The poem, published originally in Tablet Magazine and then presented together with the panels at an exhibition at the National Arts Club, is now available as an illustrated monograph at local bookstores and on Amazon.
Imported Produce: Fruit Mural Panels
(NYC, 2023-2025) Uptown Grand Central, Harlem
“imported produce” is a metaphor for immigrants in a city. It is a kiwi, repainted at this grand scale on one panel, with an accompanying series of new original produce pieces paying homage to the fruit exported from the origin countries of uptown immigrant groups of Latin American, middle eastern, African origins—in fact all of the following fruits are grown and exported from all these origin regions, including my native Ukraine and Middle East, representing a shared identity as “immigrants.”
