hello! my name is eugene korsunskiy and this is my website.

here, if you care, you may catch up on recent happenings, have a look at my work, read all about me, and even get in touch.
 
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more recent:

light games and coffee and black paintings and layers and borges and portfolio book

less recent:

fort! and the horse you rode in on and hanging skittles and skittle desk and the bible and woodwords and the eraser series and miscellany and...
 
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plan for life:

1. bike across country.
2. finish website.
2. go to grad school.
3. ?
 
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eugene.korsunskiy at gmail.com.
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news stream courtesy of the good folks at twitter:
 
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Even with a camera I can't make a picture that references reality in anything more than a vague, abstract manner. Part of this is me not trusting myself to convey anything accurately, and the resulting refusal to try.

The other part, I think, is my belief, held perhaps stupidly, that abstraction is the most accurate way to depict reality.

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How much can we really control? Whether you believe the world to be ruled by laws of physics or whims of chance, not much room seems to remain for free will, and the combination of hopelessness and stubborn tenacity that comes from this realization is an amusing place from which to act.

I started this series by embracing my fascination with little accidents like coffee stains and the way that ink bleeds through wet paper, and tried to learn something about myself from the way I interacted with them.

I hope that you find in these drawings something that I didn't mean to put in.

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I have a love/hate relationship with the amount of information that exists in our world. Sometimes when I walk into a book store I am engulfed by euphoria at the sight of all that is available, all that can be learned. Sometimes, this joy gives way to a numbness, a shutting-down and closing-off from the overwhelming. It can be that when everything is available, nothing is.

In these paintings, I set out to make a tactile representation of the dead quiet that results from crushing noise. As my subject and vehicle I chose that which is most ubiquitous yet arguably most vague: language. As I paint words, the empty canvas gets louder and louder, until the resulting cacophony in turn implodes into silence. I enjoy here rethinking the notion of composition in painting: entirely black, the pictures present just texture. I enjoy also the prospect of keeping secret the source(s) of the text.

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fort! description coming soon.

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layers. description coming soon.

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borges. description coming soon.

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an accordion-fold pamphlet of my work that i made for grad school applications.

printed size 8.5 × 187", folded to 8.5 × 8.5".

download pdf (3.1mb)
 
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Inspired by the cover of Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach, I carved a wooden cube into the letters A, R, and T, one letter per axis. I enjoyed the nonlinearity of this "word," and its constant mutation through its interaction with the viewer (the block could spell art, rat, tar, etc, depending on how the viewer manipulated it in space and time).

I later repeated the process with the word ZION (z and n shared an axis), and then with the word NINE for a "nine"-themed exhibition.

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the eraser series. description coming soon.

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hanging skittles. description coming soon.

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the skittle desk. description coming soon.

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the bible piece. description coming soon.

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the horse you rode in on. description coming soon.

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lots of little things.

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