“My work is about playing with space —

a balancing act of imagery and ideas, plans with mistakes, spontaneity vs. control, while gravity is ever present.

I like to physically walk into my sculptures and visually enter my paintings. Large-scale site-specific sculptures are most enjoyably challenging. My studio work is often in-progress — person-size paintings, sculpture, smaller 3D constructions, watercolors, maquettes, papier-mache and other serious play.

My goal is to make sculptures and paintings that are exhilarating for me and the viewer to experience.”

Tanya Kovaleski earned her MFA in Sculpture at Yale - School of Art, and her MA and BA at UC Berkeley. She currently lives and works in Ojai, CA.