Joseph Clark Collection
Ella Kruglyanskaya – Dual Pot, pg 92 (2016)
A large still life by Ella Kruglyanskaya: a black two-spouted pot on a checked cloth, painted as an image set within the canvas rather than filling it.
Held in The Joseph Clark Collection alongside works by Louise Bourgeois, Phyllida Barlow and Glenn Ligon.
About the artist
Ella Kruglyanskaya (born 1978, Riga, Latvia) lives and works in New York. She studied at Cooper Union (BFA, 2001) and Yale School of Art (MFA, 2006). (Thomas Dane Gallery)
Her first museum exhibition opened at Tate Liverpool in May 2016 and travelled to Tramway, Glasgow. Other solo shows include Studio Voltaire, London (2014), Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York and Rome, Bonner Kunstverein (2018) and Thomas Dane Gallery, London (2015, 2020, 2025). Her work is in the Tate collection and the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. (Tate, Thomas Dane Gallery)
More on Ella KruglyanskayaAbout the artwork
A black pot with two spouts and a gold-rimmed lid stands on a pink, red and yellow checked cloth. Behind it, the pale shadow of a jug falls across a grey wall. The pot is solid and glossy; the jug exists only as its shadow.
The image fills only part of the canvas. A broad cream border runs down the left side and along the top and bottom, so the still life reads as something placed on the surface: a page, a print, a picture of a picture.
The checked cloth carries the graphic energy of Kruglyanskaya's figure paintings, where clothing and textiles do much of the work. Here the pattern runs to the edge of the image and stops, drips and all. (Tate)
Provenance and attribution
- Signed and dated ‘Ella Kruglyanskaya 2016’ on the reverse.
- © Ella Kruglyanskaya. Courtesy of the Joseph Clark Collection.