eugene korsunskiy
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Rebus Works
301-2 Kinsey St, Raleigh, NC
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Now - February 28, 2010
Café Helios
413 Glenwood Ave, Raleigh, NC
www.cafehelios.com
Bean Traders Coffee
249 W Highway 54, Durham, NC
www.beantraderscoffee.com
Recent Exhibitions
November 26, 2009 - January 22, 2010
Coffee & Crepes | Cary, NC
December 1, 2009 - January 9, 2010
Caffe Driade | Chapel Hill, NC
December 1 - 30, 2009
Morning Times Gallery | Raleigh, NC
November 1 - 30, 2009
Stitch | Raleigh, NC
September 1 - 30, 2009
Open Eye Cafe | Chapel Hill, NC
July 1 - 30, 2009
Looking Glass Cafe | Carrboro, NC
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Hi! My name is Eugene. I like to make things.
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coffee & ink
Coffee and acrylic medium on matboard, 14" x 11", 2009.
Coffee on matboard, 14" x 11", 2009.
Coffee on paper, 18" x 14", 2009.
Ink on matboard, 14" x 11", 2009.
Ink and acrylic medium on matboard, 14" x 11", 2009.
paper, and tried to learn something about myself from the way I interacted with them. The real joy for me here lies in seeing what the materials themselves want to do, and in balancing control and chance by meticulously setting up a set of conditions in which variables are allowed to play out as they will. I hope that you find in these drawings something that I didn't mean to put in.
How much can we really control? Whether you believe the world to be ruled by laws of physics or whims of chance, not much room seems to remain for free will, and the combination of hopelessness and stubborn tenacity that comes from this realization is an amusing place from which to act. I started this series by embracing my fascination with little accidents like coffee stains and the way that ink bleeds through wet
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light games
35mm. Williamstown, MA, 2005.
Digital photo. Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2006.
35mm, 30s exposure. Williamstown, MA, 2005.
The other part, I think, is my belief, held perhaps stupidly, and for reasons known and unknown to me, that abstraction is the most accurate way to depict reality.
Even with a camera I can't make a picture that references reality in anything more than a vague, abstract manner. Part of that is me not trusting myself to convey anything accurately, and the resulting refusal to try.
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black paintings
Acrylic on canvas, 44" x 44", 2008-2009.
In these paintings, I set out to make a tactile representation of the dead quiet that results from crushing noise. As my subject and vehicle I chose that which is most ubiquitous yet arguably most vaguelanguage. As I paint words, the empty canvas gets louder and louder, until the resulting cacophony in turn implodes into silence. I enjoy here rethinking the notion of composition in painting: entirely black, the pictures present just texture. I enjoy also the prospect of keeping secret the source(s) of the text.
I have a love/hate relationship with the amount of information that exists in our world. Sometimes when I walk into a book store I am engulfed by euphoria at the sight of all that is available, all that can be learned. Sometimes, this joy gives way to a numbness, a shutting-down and closing-off from the overwhelming. It can be that when everything is available, nothing is.
undergraduate work
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