CABIN FEVER ARTIST TALK

Nikolina Kovalenko

As the Covid-19 health crisis continues, the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey is working on ways to bring art to you at home, virtually. This is another installment of our ongoing series we call Cabin Fever Artist Talks. For these, we’ve asked artists to tell us a little about themselves and their work. In some cases, they’ll be answering questions provided by the Art Center. In others, they’ll be showing us around their studio or highlighting works in progress.

For this edition, we hear from artist Nikolina Kovalenko. Nikolina is interested in humanity’s psychological connection with Nature and strives to expose the consequences our everyday actions have on the environment.

Kovalenko works with fragile ecosystems creating artwork inspired by locations specific to each project. Her subjects range from global warming, deforestation, and coral bleaching, to processing and interpreting visual landscape and cultural associations. She received her MFA from Moscow Surikov Art Institute (Moscow, Russia) in 2011 and studied at Universität der Künste (Berlin) in 2010. She holds a Gold Medal from the Russian Art Academy. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

For more information, visit www.nikaart.org/