At the heart of Shishkin’s paintings and drawings lies a whimsical yet incisive exploration of the female form within vividly imagined pictorial spaces. In this new body of work, she translates her anxious, dreamlike narratives into the tactile medium of ceramic tile. Each hand-drawn piece reveals Shishkin’s distinctive visual language, where amorphous abstraction and Mannerist distortion coexist in dynamic tension. Each tile captures her anthropomorphic figures engaged in a fantastical take on the everyday — entangled in scenes that merge pleasure and play, animated by her signature wit and a sly nod to comics and caricature.

Dasha Shishkin (born 1977) earned a BFA from the New School for Social Research, 2001, and an MFA from Columbia University in 2006. She has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, CA; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; and the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO. Group exhibitions include “Greater New York,” MoMA PS1, New York; Saatchi Gallery, London; and the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens. Work in public collections includes: the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Cincinnati Art Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, the Art Institute of Chicago, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Museum of Old and New Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art.