Yana Chi spends her days pressing plaster, pigment and patience into panels, then stepping back until the light agrees with her. This is the person the works come from.
With “Cobalt Current” · gallery hang
“I don’t paint pictures of things. I build places for light to land: the work changes with every hour of the day.”
Every piece starts as weight: plaster mixed by hand, paste pulled across a panel, a comb or a blade or a fingertip dragged through while it still gives. There is no sketch to copy; the surface answers back, and Yana listens.
Works leave the studio the way you see them here: carried by hand, hung by eye, finished only when a wall and its light accept them.
The reliefs are made to be stood in front of: grooves you want to trace, folds that hold shadow at noon and release it by evening. Yana’s other practice, гвоздестояние, is the same discipline in another form: full attention, pressed into matter.
Galleries taught me one thing: people don’t look at texture, they lean into it.Yana Chi
The unposed side of a working artist: hands in paste by morning, headphones on for the hang, and the occasional grin between coats.
For available pieces, commissions, or just to talk texture, Yana replies personally.