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Photography by Jim Charles [caption id="attachment_730" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Gray/Gray Neckpiece, reused plastic bags, copper shot, 21” x 5 ½” x 2 ¼”, 2017"]...
grow
Yevgeniya Kaganovich’s grow was a series of durational installations in a number of public buildings throughout the city of Milwaukee and the surrounding area. grow was a production of the Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where Kaganovich was an artist in residence from 2012 to 2016. At each location, ...
Black Work
This body of work is a series of wearable pieces that simulate plant and mycelia-like forms, utilizing reused plastic bags as base material. Playful and a bit alien, these pieces juxtapose the discarded artificial material with organic forms in various formats of jewelry, which we come to associate with preciousness. Photography ...
on function
on function took place at Institute of Visual Art (INOVA), April 22-June 25, 2016, in conjunction with ZOOM Milwaukee. on function was curated by Yevgeniya Kaganovich with assistance form Sara Krajewski and included the work of Michael Beitz, David Clarke, Beth Lipman, Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, Noam Toren, and ...
Strange Vegetation
Strange Vegetation grows an ecological system out of the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum’s unique decorative interior. It is a site-specific installation incorporated with the repeated pattern of exotic greenery and floral iron work on the walls around it. Here, a system of physically interconnected and identical plant-like forms project, ...
infest/inhabit
inhabit/infest is an intervention into the unusual interior architecture of the Sharon Lynn Wilson Center for the Arts. The Center’s art gallery is carved out with rectilinear shapes and columns that are unconventionally interspersed with small nooks and alcoves. This site-specific installation connects its ceilings, walls and niches with a system of organic forms. Here large and misshapen latex tubes, elongated ...
Falling Still
Falling Still, a collaboration with Nathaniel Stern, utilizes 200 cement-cast feathers as individual pixels to create a larger image across 6 planes. Each of these sculptures has been hand-poured into molds of actual feathers, exhibiting finely detailed quills on one side, and flat concrete surfaces ...
balloon mouth piece series
The balloon mouth pieces are seemingly self-sustaining but ultimately self defeating closed off systems. They are rendered as respirator masks with medical straps to make these devices seam more believable, to make the viewers think they can use them and wonder why one would use them and what it would ...
mouth piece series
I am interested in function as a point of access for the viewer and an opportunity to create meaning. It’s important to me that these pieces are not red as sculpture to be observed, but that they invite the viewer’s participation, whether actual or imagined. It’s through this engagement that ...
SGS/HED series
Solidified Gesture Specimen/ Hypered Experience Device Series I address the complexities of inner personal and social interactions conditioned by the corporal body. I explore the absurdity of our attempts to express, perceive, communicate and understand. I think of the pieces I create as body extensions that display a psychological condition, and ...
pearl necklace series
In making jewelry I am interested in exploring the cultural and social functions of adornment. I am fascinated by the function of craft objects beyond utility. Specifically, I am interested in how jewelry functions to signal identity, power, fraternity and status as well as its ability to communicate ideas about ...
pearl clasp neclace series
The Pearl Clasp Necklace series utilizes altered images of a traditional pearl clasp and porcelain “pearls”. The clasps flatten, inflate, gradate and deform, loosing their function in this transformation and becoming decorative elements. Porcelain is slip cast into images of pearls that gain their nacre from actual fresh ...
scope series
The Scope Series calls attention to the function of jewelry through implied utility. This body of work visually fuses a traditional jewelry format – the necklace, and a functional object that does not serve as adornment – the stethoscope. My intent in combining something that we usually think of as ...
we
we is a collaborative installation by Yevgeniya Kaganovich, Dale Kaminski and Mat Rappaport inspired by the dystopic novel We by Yevgeny Zamyatin. we is a generative audio surveillance work which collects sound from an array of microphones attached to weather balloons. The balloons are arranged in a grid and held in ...
liminal
In liminal Yevgeniya Kaganovich and Jenniffer Gutowski attempt to convey a hypered experience, an agitated state and a sense of profound longing. This project utilizes the ephemeral nature of projected images onto tentative or provisional objects. Specific video projections incorporate repetitive and trifling actions that evoke a state where reason ...
repine
In repine, the site specific film projections evoke a state where reason and language fail. The first of two pieces utilizes the projection of light and shadow as a template to reveal the surface of a screen covered with feathers. The second piece presents a woman gazing out the window while ...
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