Meet Artist Yulia Pinkusevich - Friday, November 14, 2025. 7 – 9 PM - Pinole Artisans
- Nadine Laurent
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Yulia Pinkusevich is an artist and educator born in Kharkiv, Ukraine (USSR). Upon the collapse of the Soviet Union, her family fled the eastern block as refugees, immigrating to New York City. She later relocated to California to attend college and graduate school, continuing to reside in the San Francisco Bay Area to this day. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Stanford University and Bachelors of Fine Arts from Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts.
Yulia works primarily in drawing, painting and installation. She creates projects and large-scale environments that consider our ecological and social systems. Her work observes land and environment critically, focusing on the psychology of space while exploring visible and psychological environments sentient beings inhabit. Using art as a vehicle to merge the physical and psychological parallels, she explores the sentiments of our non-human kin and the life force of elemental beings like fire and water. Her work is a search for innate inner truths.
Her background itself is rooted in change. Born and raised in the USSR at a time of great political upheaval and uncertainty, her work stems from her identity as an immigrant of Siberian & Ukrainian roots. Her art explores dualities and the complex relationships between her blended identity and home countries. Formally, the work is engaged with the direct experience of the viewer through perspectival illusion and spatial perception that play with the subconscious and cognitive understanding of space. By breaking logical perspectives, she creates illusions of impossible spaces, non-places or utopias that shift the viewpoint to the panoptic.
About our Monthly Meetings
Join us at El Sobrante United Methodist Church in the Keisler Room at 7:00 PM. You can find this at the address: 5151 Argyle Road, El Sobrante. After parking, proceed up the ramp to the left. Our monthly general meetings are free and open to the public, everyone is welcome! We're eager to see your artwork, so feel free to bring any type of art, regardless of your experience or skill level. Creativity in all its forms is celebrated here. Sharing your work is encouraged but not mandatory. Enjoy refreshments and an engaging program with us!
