Masha Solus
Opening 12/13 | 7pm 5404 Walnut Street
Inversion, distortion, and empathy are the core of the work of Masha Solus. This series, with its painterly washes of blues and pops of green, uses these concepts to emphasize the horrors and depression of war. Focusing on the war between Russia and Ukraine, which began in February 2022 and continues to escalate today, her art explores how conflict reshapes our understanding of the world. The works challenge us to reconsider the relationship between the visible and the unseen, the personal and the collective, the real and the mediated.
Masha Solus is a watercolor artist living and working in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Originally from Moscow, Russia, she received a professional art education from the Russian State University named after A. N. Kosygin (Technology, Design, Art) under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, specializing in art and design from September 2006 to August 2012.
In 2014, she moved to Israel and studied conceptual art, including an internship at the Art Studio of Sasha Okun, an artist and professor at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. From September 2019 to May 2020, she studied remotely at the School of Contemporary Art in Moscow. From September 2021 to May 2022, she studied remotely in a theoretical course of contemporary art taught by Professor A. G. Velikanov at the School of Contemporary Art in Moscow.
In 2022, Masha moved with her husband and daughter to America, where she continues to work as an artist.
