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Sculptural Necklaces of Tatyana Zhurkov

 
Exhibition catalogue available from zevs@robotek.ru or swashers@aol.com
 


Flower Buds with Leaves
2003, plastic, 24 inches
 
 


Blossoming Bushes with Butterflies
2004, plastic, 27 inches
 


In Japanese Style
2004, plastic, 26¯ inches

   

 


   "Bright, three-dimensional, unusual… One can probably find many more definitions for Tatyana Zhurkov's necklaces. It seems that there is some excessiveness, a burlesque quality, in the sonority of their colors and in the variety of their forms…"

 


Dr. Marina Lopato,
Curator, Gold and Silver Collection
State Hermitage Museum

 


   ... plastic materials … are all around me. ... I need a huge quantity and wide variety of materials. Then, with bits and pieces from everyday life, I improvise.

   When I started to work with plastic materials, I learned that I could create something like airy castles, something fragile but strong. The materials themselves permitted a new form of expression ...

Tatyana Zhurkov