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mira alibek
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SPECIMEN: Over Again (detail)
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I am a NYC based artist, who lived the first half of my life in Russia and Kazakhstan. I am still influenced by those childhood memories, still steeped in that Russian culture of illustration, animation and lavish orthodox iconography. Later inspirations include Warhol's rugged silkscreens with their serial imagery, Barbara Kruger's use of expropriation and type, as well as Art Nouveau intricacies of line and color (which I associate back to those of medieval Russian iconography).
My work grows out of a fascination with variations within repetitions, with orders and with disorders, and with the patterns and singularities that comprise them. I draw inspiration from these patterns, from objects and tracings that have begun the process of deterioration and build stories around them.
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SPECIMEN: Preserved
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I work with natural textures, mixing media to achieve the image I envision. I build a piece in layers, using different surfaces, materials and patterns to create depth both in form and meaning. Each layer works with and against the layer beneath it, creating new relations. If an error occurs in printing or drawing, I may latch onto it, pivoting the entire piece on a new trajectory. Or I may zoom into it, developing a new work around a bizarre gradient in ink, a crooked line.
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LOST: Night
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LOST: Day
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MUTATION (panel 4)
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My detailed drawing is structured doodling. Patterns of images and symbols are woven together, providing a skeletal structure to the piece. I bend these forms, rend them, start them anew, evolve them into something quite different. A bigger image is built out of and upon these patterns. I repeat one idea over and over in a series, or juxtapose opposing ideas. Through variation, I am able to reveal and contrast differing facets of a theme. Through this kind of sequencing a deeper story emerges, an ambiguous truth.
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SPECIMEN #1a/205
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mira alibek
358 Henry Street, apt.4R
Brooklyn
New York, NY
11201
New York
North America
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