Ekaterina Khromin
As a contemporary artist, I explore transformation, deconstruction, and reconstruction, reflecting the convergence of physical and emotional transfiguration. I blend the past and present to create new visual and emotional narratives.
My Story
Introduction:
Ekaterina Khromin comes out of the nonconformist art scene from the turbulent years of the Soviet 80s. She kept the continuity of the movement but brought a transformation into the both intellectual and spiritual thread of visual ideas. A transformation catalyzed by her escape from the threats and repression in the USSR. She arrived in New York in 1990 with her late husband Viktor, and saw the world with new eyes. Today she paints and creates intricate, large multimedia canvases that are in a genre of their own. The genre and method is called Synergism, a combination of different mediums to produce their alchemical result, a sculptural composition reminiscent of relief, with another, quite striking dimension of color bringing the relief to life.
Nonconformist artists were persecuted in the Soviet Union not only for ‘actionism’, but also for painting and holding exhibits in private, in the artists’ apartments most often. In a previous interview with Ekaterina, published in VoyageMIA, we spoke about the cultural shock of her immigration to the United States, and the encounter with the freedom of artistic expression here in the early 90s.