Born 1977, Ukraine the artist lives and works in New York , USA
Galya Kovalyova was born in 1977 in Odessa, Ukraine. She grew up in Boston and graduated from Brandeis University. Galya currently resides in New York City, where, for the past 3 years, she is exploring on her own terms the boundaries of photography and all that these boundaries can open.
Solo Shows Include:
-Doron Braunshtein Gallery at Apollo Braun, Lower East Side Boutique, NY, NY July 2007 -Galapagos Art Space Williamsburg, NY July 2006
Group Shows Include: -NAscent Art Show and Auction NY, NY May & July 2007 -Windows Project Easthampton, MA September 2006 -Grace Exhibition Space Brooklyn, NY September 2006 -”Islamic Cultures in Reflection” University of Hawaii in Manoa & World Bank, Jakarta, Indonesia 2006 -Gallerie Kita Bandung, Indonesia May 2005
Artist Statement:
As an aspiring photographer, I would like to become an emotional instance note-taker. I wish to be able to capture a unique combination of impressions of the moment, which of course include to some degree the worlds of the past, the future and the imagination, which I am just barely aware of, but believe it to have been present. I do not claim to know or fully understand the subject of my passer-by impressions, nor to be able to relate about it on the grounds of the subject, but I claim to have entered at one time in an emotional and aesthetic engagement with it and all I can wish for is that the feeling of that engagement will bring up another feeling in the emotional memory of the viewer and thus continue a dialogue that can not be expressed in words or even photography. In the experience of a traveler this situation can be called dejavu; I hope to re-create this kind of travel with my work.
Website: Galya Photography Contact email: galochka7@yahoo.com |