LARISSA TOKMAKOVA

In her new lithographs, Larisa Tokmokova explores dynamic compositions which relate closely to her work in painting. Tokmakova draws fluidly with lithographic crayons and pencils, and layers washes to establish large curving forms that intertwine and pull the viewer into the space of the image. Her forms, developed in combinations of shifting planes of color, suggest figural as well as abstract motifs. Tokmakova has written about the figural aspects of her work and has discussed the imagery as, “firmly rooted in a specific physical (if imaginary) reality, involving the human body in motion.” In these works, interior, exterior, and figurative spaces seem to coalesce and then to shift again into their respective coordinates. Nuances of light and shadow allow us to move through forms.