Yelena Kimelblat

Like a knight’s move in chess, Yelena’s choice of burlap bags as her painting surface goes over and around the Western tradition of the artist’s canvas as the painter’s foundational medium. Yelena’s use of unstructured and rough burlap amounts to a symbolic statement about how art is valued yet removed from the human experience. The burlap is not just a backing but represents a backstory in Yelena’s disruptive project to introduce a deeper experiential implication to her artistic imagery.

Born in Kiev, Ukraine. Yelena Kimelblat

started to paint in 2008 and art became a means for Yelena to share with others her vision of life. Yelena Kimelblat’s recent offering of more than twenty paintings in her newly evolved, visually striking “Burlap Collection” represents a personal breakthrough for her as an artist. The paintings are, for this self-taught Ukrainian-American artist, an exquisite series of images, unified by the artist’s idiosyncratic yet evocative imagery. Yelena’s images explore the nuances of feminine subjectivity in a way that transcends historical moments to reveal a foundational, intimate embodied truth.