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Elena Fattakova is a Russian born award-winning artist. She studied violin at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow before moving to New York City in 1993. Early on she discovered her interest in the visual arts and took on collages. Many of them came into being under the direct influence of classical music and jazz. Somewhere between lightness and gravity, collage is the medium is which she explored color and dimension.
Based on her experience as a musician, Elena realized a deep relationship between music and poetry. She writes both in English and Russian. Her work was published in Poets West Literary Journal, the Portland Review: Cartographica, Liberty magazine, California Quarterly: CSPS PL&LR, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, The Coast and others.
Her poem ALCATRAZ, published in Poetry Letter & Literary Review: California State Poetry Society, Ginosko and the Red Wheelbarrow Literary Magazine, became a full-length multimedia stage play (world premiere in Manhattan's 14th Street Theater in April 2007, directed by Andre Dion).
Gradually she came to sculpture and became a student at the National Academy School of Fine Arts and the Art Students League of New York where in addition to sculpture, drawing and painting became an extension of her poetic expression.
“Practicing various techniques while connecting traditional and experimental elements is of a particular interest to me because it extends imagination towards new, to discover the yet unknown in its purity.”
She was awarded a sculpture price at the National Academy Museum and has been showing her works extensively in New York and nationwide, including Rogue Space Chelsea, Audubon Artists Society, the Salmagundi Arts Club, Gallery 57, the Santa Cruz Art League National Exhibition, the “Art for Japan” - Unicef fund raiser, as well as overseas in Berlin and Barcelona.
Her works are in private collections in the US, Europe and Australia.
Recent Exhibitions
2013 85th Grand National Exhibition,
The American Artists
Professional League, NYC
2013 71st Annual Audubon Artists Society Exhibition,
NYC
2013 International Art Festival, 25 CPW Gallery, NYC
SEA and SKY National Juried Exhibition,
Liz Afif Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2012 70th Annual Audubon Artists Society Exhibition,
The Salmagundi Art Club, NYC
2012 National Fiber Art Exhibition,
Santa Cruz Art League, California
2012 Year-End Exhibition,
National Academy School of Fine Arts, NYC
2011 Films on Artists International Art Competition,
FilmsOnArtists Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
2011 69th Annual Audubon Artists Society Exhibition,
The Salmagundi Art Club, NYC
2011 Fall Opening Student Exhibition,
National Academy School of Fine Arts, NYC
2011 Art for Japan –
UNICEF Fund-raising Art Event,
Studio 57 Fine Arts, NYC
2011 Help Japan! The Charity Exhibition,
National Academy School of Fine Arts, NYC
2010 68th Annual Audubon Artists Society Exhibition,
The Salmagundi Art Club, NYC
2010 International Juried Sculpture Show,
Rogue Space,
Chelsea, NYC
2010 12th Annual Juried Exhibition,
National Academy Museum, NYC
2010 “Shelly's Big City”, Shelly’s Restaurant,
W 57th Street, NYC
2009 “Small Works” Exhibition, Manhattan Borough
President's Office, NYC
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THE COLLAGES OF ELENA FATTAKOVA
by William Benton
... Collage is a medium in which the irrational,
the sudden juxtaposition of disparate realities,
is an essential element of composition.
Dissociation between things is the necessary
condition for the stunning alchemy that
connects them. Fattakova is fluent in this
shadow dance at the edge of the unconscious,
where the work of both poet and artist takes place...
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