Polina Tereshina

Polina Tereshina

Polina Tereshina

Polina Tereshina (b. Chelyabinsk, Russia) is a Brooklyn-based artist working in painting and sculpture. Her work is currently being shown at Galerie Christine Mayer in Munich. She will also show works in a group exhibition at the “The Catskills” in NYC this June.

Rider

2021 Acrylic on canvas 89 x 76

Polina Tereshina weaves together the discourse of the white cube with comic book humor, reflecting on canonical ideological constructs. By condensing binaries of representation, such as abstraction and gender, as well as other cultural tropes, she creates areas of openness where these categories begin to lose their assertive power. Sundry references to art history and geography swim in a sea of loose brush marks where archetypes are untethered from the frameworks they rely on to exist. Tereshina creates arrangements where each object is a concrete proposition: social, political, and imaginary, creating a constellation of varying ideas that forms an overall conceptual gestalt.

Omlet

2021 Acrylic on canvas 89 x 76

Vacation

2021 Acrylic on paper 26 x 20

Hunter MFA

This spring, the Hunter College MFA Program in Studio Art will graduate 26 artists who completed their degree over the challenging months of the COVID-19 pandemic. These talented MFA Thesis Candidates are exhibiting their work in six group exhibitions at 205 Hudson, in addition to this online spotlight hosted by Hauser & Wirth. At time when the public audience for in-person exhibitions has been limited by the pandemic, we are excited to provide this digital platform to the emerging artists from Hunter College’s MFA Program in Studio Art.