Adriana Poterash

“Opus. Tsunami.”, 2021, 36”x36”, acrylics, collage, phototransfer on canvas.
"Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear." (Bethany Hamilton)
Our world keeps on going through turbulent times. The worry about our children’s future is increasing daily while next generation is born every day. How well will they succeed to break free from these adversaries and to live free lives? Who will win? Who will loose?
Is it a spiritual evolvement of our consciousness, of our faith in better humanity and our efforts to make it so?
The unknown forces are beating up a storm creating a wave. Within the wave are stuck the unborn souls - some of them decided to come into this world and face the challenges.

My paintings reflect the perception of human experience.
Through subtle symbolism that is trying to evoke a new level of understanding, thinking, and visual appreciation.
Through experimentation with variety of interdisciplinary techniques and materials, I am continuously evolving my artwork to a new level of innovation and contemporary approach.
Always wandering with my camera around cities and forests, / collect images of daily objects, random people, scenes of nature, and street events to fuse them into a surreal world of uncommon alliances.
Although the compiled images are figurative, their setting and presentation is strongly conceptual. A sort of 'conceptual figuratism' where space warps, time looses its chronology, images collapse, perspectives get distorted and the surfaces tear. and the deterioration reveals more layers of hidden images underneath.
All these elements are reabsorbed into cohesive new structures and unexpected unions - a surreal vision inviting a viewer to relate and to give a personal interpretation.
The elements of randomness, accidents, roughness that happens during this process are welcomed, as they partially remove complete control over the work of ego, and this gives my work a chance to create itself, to get its own life.