Voluble, 2011 / acrylic, marker, and ball-point pen on canvas / 48 x 48 inches
Permanent Collection of the Santa Barbara Art Museum
A Frame, 2015 / acrylic on paper / 30 x 22.5 inches
Stupor, 2011 / acrylic, marker, and ball-point pen on canvas / 48 x 48 inches
Colleccion Jimenez-Colon (Puerto Rico)
Coagulate, 2010 / acrylic, marker, and ball-point pen on canvas / 24 x 24 inches
Frederick R. Weisman Foundation Collection
All the Right Moves, 2013 / acrylic, marker, ball-point pen, and spray paint on canvas / 62 x 96 inches
Private Collection (Canada)
Relics, 2013 / acrylic, marker, ballpoint pen and spray paint on canvas / 30 x 30 inches
Spectrum, 2010 / Acrylic, marker, ball-point pen and spray paint on canvas over panel / 30 x 46 inches
Epitome, 2010 / Acrylic, marker, ball-point pen and spray paint on canvas over panel / 30 x 46 inches
Fat 1, 2010 / Acrylic, marker, and ball-point pen on canvas / 21 x 23 inches
Fat 2, 2010 / Acrylic, marker, and ball-point pen on paper / 14 x 19 inches
Florid, 2010 / Acrylic, marker, and ball-point pen on canvas over panel / 18 x 24 inches
Utilizing John Rajchman's notion of "operative formalism," Feodor Voronov (b. 1980, St. Petersburg) creates optical terrains that splinter and twist around the central image of a word. Voronov investigates the nature of repetition in both form and language by painting harlequin patterns that are at once organic and methodical - an analysis of the human experience that borders on familiar but is clearly unique. Voronov toys with the formal aesthetics of the written word, evaluating its psychological roots in symbolism à la Magritte, while also embellishing upon the intrinsic habit of mark-making in the vein of Cy Twombly.
Voronov received his MFA from Claremont University (CA) in 2008, and has shown at Joshua Liner Gallery (NY), Laguna Art Museum (CA), and Concrete Walls (CA). His work is included in the permanent collections of the Santa Barbara Art Museum (CA), Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), Colleccion Jimenez-Colon (Puerto Rico), and the Frederick R. Weisman Founation Collection (CA). The recipient of the 2008 Hernandez Fellowship, and the 2007 Claremont Graduate University Fellowship, he lives and works in Los Angeles.
