"The Moscow-born, New York-based painter and printmaker Dasha Shishkin's work has been in the spotlight since her inclusion, as a Columbia University MFA student, in the 2005 edition of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center's "Greater New York." The show's co-curator (and current P.S.1 director) Klaus Biesenbach compared her work to that of Goya and Brueghel. Others have conjured Egon Schiele, Brice Marden, Henry Darger—even Japanese wood prints. But Shishkin's pieces belong in a category of their own. Her abstract landscapes, bizarre scenes, and images of borderline-perverse human interactions—which tap into the viewer's own thoughts, dreams, or fantasies—are devised with bold, rich colors and tactile textures, using domestic materials like wallpaper and unique media like Conté crayons and Sumi ink." —Gio Marconi, Modern Painters

Image: Dasha Shishkin, Dwelling in the marvelous, 2010. Mixed media on mylar. 24 x 36 inches/61 x 91.4 cm. Courtesy of Zach Feuer Gallery, New York