HELLO!
I call this section painting, but in reality it is a debate whether watercolor is painting or drawing. I choose to label it as painting, because of the way I think through the process of my works and the way I work with shape over line. Image made with a semi-liquid material, on a 2D surface, regardless of what the surface is, to me is a painting.
Lithography
Screenprinting
surfaces: stones, plates, screens...
I think I find necessary reasons to, in all cases, defend, or explain my choice of medium, or my interest in it. I started printmaking in early 2025, which, depending on when you are reading this is not that long ago, but it is already a tradition of which I cannot let go.There is a conceptual interest I hold, regarding the practice of reproduction that is inherent in printmaking, or the fact that each print (I choose to ignore monotypes here) is a reproduction, a copy of a surface. A surface which in many cases, such as stone lithography, has been erased. In that way a print becomes a copy without the "original" image, morphing into the original by itself.This is the case for lithography, but even screen printing and etching pose their own questions. Segmentation, fragmentation, originality, and machine... These are the things I am thinking about currently in regards to printmaking as a specific medium or department.- May, 2025
Anastasia Maloletkina (b. 2003 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia) is a Chicago based artist, who can currently be found studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Being a student, there is a difficulty in solidifying what is it exactly that she does (in the future continuous tense), but what is concrete is the past with which she coexists. A past that involves an immigration date that requires the telling of her whole life story, planes, and attachments (or lack thereof). The uncontrollable flow of location has found itself settled into the work she is creating, with each line being a string that has already been taken by the waters of fate. The oceanic metaphors coincide with the fact that she very much likes the color blue, water, and fish, but the psychoanalytic reasons for that have yet to be uncovered.