New York-based painter Ella Kruglyanskaya (b. 1978, Latvia) creates artworks that immerse viewers in a bold world of saturated colours and high contrast patterns. Female relationships, friendships and dialogues form the foundation of the artist’s varied subject matters. Her practice engages with many often-overlooked styles, techniques and formal concerns from the history of painting, such as her use of egg tempera. Working in a style that combines the graphic and the painterly, Kruglyanskaya embraces a wide range of influences from German expressionism to film and popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s.
In 2016 Tate Liverpool presented a survey of her paintings from the past ten years and debuted a selection of new artworks.
