Ksenia Dermenzhi @ Beers Gallery

Ksenia Dermenzhi’s exhibition, In Bloom, focusses on a word that has a romantic and loaded feeling. The works are about flowers, colours and joy; there is a real sense of joy and buoyancy in her works.  Despite the unbridled energy emanating from these paintings, Dermenzhi displays a mastery over her technique that belies her youth. Seeming to borrow from the free-form approach of the Blau Reiter period, her paintings similarly utilize a broad language of abstraction, including traditions known by Surrealist and Cubist artists, or perhaps a 20th Century formalism is at work. Her dynamic and frontal compositions are built up over time through colour-washes and painterly spills, intentional marks as well as organic expressions of paint.