As a visual artist I am captivated by everything an eye can see. I am also enthralled by the things an ear can hear—music and exploration of sounds really help the development of my visual language and expression (sometimes even the encounter) of my themes. But my outmost deepest interest lies in the sphere where the eye cannot see and the ear cannot hear but the only instrument that is attuned enough in that microcosm of reactions is that of human spirit.
Andjana (Andy) Pachkova comes from the traditional Russian art tutoring background. Following Perestroika, in the early 1990s, she took classes at Stroganov Moscow State University of Art and Industry, as well as studied with various private tutors.
In 1997 Andjana won a prestigious Davis Fellowship and subsequently moved to the United States to pursue a graduate degree in liberal arts at Dartmouth College. While at Dartmouth, Andjana took a visual arts class to enhance her drawing technique. After that she studied art at the night courses at NYU, and later, continued her studies here in Australia through a two-year study at Northbridge Visual Art School (“NVAS”) (earned Diploma of Visual Arts in 2014) and at the Willoughby Art Center (“WAC”) and the Wollarha Waverly Art School (“WWAS”). At WAC, NVAS and WWAS Andjana studied with such notable local artists as Karen Atkins, Brandt Lewis, Robyn Ross, Denis Clarke and Tony Tozer, among others. Recently Andjana started developing an interest in printmaking which further informed her understanding of painting and drawing.
Andjana holds a Master of Law from Harvard University (Cambridge, MA), Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Dartmouth College (Hanover, NH) and a Bachelor of Laws from Moscow International University. Andjana has lived and studied law and art in many countries and has had a wealth of experiences and imagery that she has been working on integrating in her art.
Having moved to Australia in 2013, Andjana developed a keen passion for the Australian landscape and has enjoyed the local art scene ever since. The artist has passionately explored the Australian landscape through line and color. Andjana is interested in understanding the subtle changes in the human psyche that occur when a person moves through a series of places. Her further interest lies in discovering how that mutual interaction of the human being and the landscape shapes both. Andjana is captivated by the never-ending dance of the nature and the human, passionate and loving to be sure, yet mostly violent, and at times exploitative.
The artist lives and works in Killara, NSW with her husband and three young sons.
As of April 2017, Andjana is represented by Stanley Street Gallery in New South Wales and Mercury Gallery in Moscow.
CV
2014 Gallery 307, student exhibition;
2015 Gallery 307, group show;
2015 Gallery 307, group show;
2015 Ewart Gallery at the Workshop Art Center, group show;
2016 Gallery 307, group show;
2016 Lindfield Art Fair, exhibited 2 works;
2016 Ewart Gallery at the Willoughby Art Center—finalist of the 2016 Ewart Art Prize;
2016 Paper Plane Gallery, “Disintegration Anxiety,” solo show;
2016 Finalist Northbridge Art Prize;
2017 Stanley Street Gallery “Introducing” group show;
2017 Stanley Street Galley “Pop Up” group show;
2017 Its Liquid Group “Anima Mundi” Festival, Venice, Italy;
2018 AVWAR GROUP SHOW “Home” at Northern Soul Kitchen, Hoboken, NJ, January 2018
2018 Ewart Gallery at the Workshop Art Center, finalist of Ewart Art Prize;
2018 Stanley Street Gallery “Die Sehnsucht” solo show;
2019 “Destination Home: Traveling Far to Arrive “There””, Moscow, Mercury Gallery
TV shows:
Several of Andjana’s landscape paintings will appear in the second season of a TV show “Secret City” on Foxtel and Nextflix at the end of 2018/beginning 2019.
Music Covers for albums:
MUUI: “Seminal” relased on MicroCastle, February 2017,
Paranoid Dancer: “Reset” November 2016,
Paranoid Dancer/Patrik Carrera: “Whim”, December 2016,
Paranoid Dancer/Patrik Carrera: “Type 7-9”, December 2016,
Paranoid Dancer/Patrik Carrera: “Vacant”, January 2017,
The Best Pessimist: Drawing the Endless Shore “DRAMA” November 2017,
Reza Naeemi “Castle in the Sky”, July 1, 2018
Directorships and community involvement:
In 2017 Andjana Pachkova was elected to the Board of Director of Workshop Art Center in Willoughby, Sydney area, Andjana serves as the Chairwoman on the Programming Committee of the board.