05/17/2023
YAW Artist Highlight: Raisa Nosova ✨
“My work opens a platform for discussion on the topic of trauma and resilience. I seek to bring awareness to the emotional baggage that survivors have to conceal in daily life. I dissect, peel, slice, unveil and reorganize extreme experiences in my studio practice to help me process the impacts.” -Raisa Nosova
“..the second reason Raisa Nosova is indispensable: her unflinching commitment to her concept. At a time when visual artists are, too often, content to be merely decorative, Nosova is motivated, and she wears that motivation proudly. She refuses to hide from any of the unsettling implications of her pieces: all the trauma, bodily harm, vulnerability, emotional peril, and life-giving fluidity of womanhood and motherhood, is right there on the (see-through) surface. Given the alacrity that radiates from her pieces, you can bet that Nosova has thought all of this through. Nothing about her pieces feels accidental. Her work is a very specific response to actual human experiences that many people have had, and it’s a joy to see an artist express herself so clearly and with such confidence.” -Tris McCall for Jersey City Times
Come see Raisa’s work , including her incredible painting “Displacement, Victorian” , 71"x165", Acrylic Paint & Oil Stick on Canvas (slide 2) at during YAW !
