Luba Drozd
Born1982
Lviv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Alma mater
AwardsGuggenheim Fellow (2021)

Luba Drozd (born 1982) is a Ukrainian-American installation artist.

Biography

Drozd was born in 1982 in Lviv, then part of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,[1] and as an adolescent later emigrated to the United States.[2] Drozd received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Computer Graphics and Interactive Media from Pratt Institute in 2006,[3][4] then attended the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, where she earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Film/Video in 2015.[5][4]

Drozd's early works were single and two channel animation and video. For Smack Mellon's 2015 show Respond, Drozd contributed Humane Restraint, a video installation which art critic Jillian Steinhauer said "mashes up cheery instructional videos from mental hospitals and police forces that teach viewers how to properly restrain people . . . [and hinges] brilliantly on the point at which humor quietly swings into seriousness."[6] In that same year, she received a new work grant from the Eastern State Penitentiary for a two-channel video installation called Institute of Corrections,[7] and was a BRIC Media Arts Fellow.[8] In 2016, she was a Fall/Winter 2016-2017 artist resident for the Studios at MASS MoCA,[9] and her piece Solipsism was included in CIM, an exhibition of seven contemporary Ukrainian-American Artists.[10] In 2017 she was a Bronx Museum of the Arts AIM Fellow,[11] with her installation piece subsequently included in that year's Bronx Museum Biennial.[12] In 2017, Drozd had a solo show at Lubov (a gallery in Manhattan), called Soon enough Roads will be Rivers.[13]

In 2018, Drozd received residencies at the Millay Colony for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts[14][15] and exhibited within a group show at the Pfizer Building in Brooklyn.[16] In 2019 Drozd received a MacDowell Colony Fellowship,[17] and she and William Lamson worked on A Continuous Stream of Occurrence, an exhibition at the Knockdown Center.[18] Her subsequent piece Tarsainn received support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts through their emergency grant program.[19] In late-2019, Drozd created a site specific piece at Sunview Luncheonette.[20] In 2020, Drozd received a Yaddo residency.[21] That same year, she also worked as part of A faint hum, a group installation at the Hessel Museum of Art.[22] Rachel Vera Steinberg said that "Using piano strings, animated projection, sheet metal, micro-controllers, motors, and drywall, Drozd’s new installation yearns for a synesthetic equalization of matter."[22]

During the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Drozd distributed 3D-printed face shields, based on a design by Prusa Research (the manufacturers of the Prusa i3 3D printers).[23] The shields were designed to be "fabricated with acetate, a hole puncher from a discount store, and rubber bands".[23] On March 30, 2020, a photograph of Drozd creating the masks appeared in a New York Times article on the rise of crowdsourced medical equipment during the pandemic.[24] In May 2020, Drozd told arts magazine Bomb that "[m]uch of [her] art practice deals with the subjectivity of perception on both micro and macro levels."[23] In 2021, Drozd was appointed a Guggenheim Fellow.[25]

On February 24, 2022, Drozd, condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine, took part in an anti-invasion march in Manhattan.[2] She has family who remained in Ukraine after her emigration, and she wanted them to flee the country for their safety.[2] She also voiced her "doubts [that] domestic and international pressure would deter [President of Russia Vladimir] Putin from pursuing his plan to take over Ukraine."[2] In November 2022, she returned to Smack Mellon with The Tenacity of a Fluid Trace, an art installation incorporating drywall, piano wire, sheet metal, and steel beams to produce sound.[26] Gregory Volk said that he "would hardly characterize [it] as a direct response to the war, yet correspondences are evident, especially in her deep feeling and respect for matter, in contrast with Putin’s senseless destruction."[26]

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Luba Drozd (b. 1982)". Critical Path Method. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bishara, Hakim (February 25, 2022). "Ukrainian Artists Speak Out As Invasion Intensifies". Hyperallergic. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Pratt Institute | News | Members of the Pratt Community Sew Masks and 3D-Print Face Shields to Combat COVID-19". www.pratt.edu. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  4. 1 2 "CV". luba drozd. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  5. ↑ Relations, Bard Public. "Luba Drozd MFA '15 Is Making Masks for New York Doctors and Nurses with a GoFundMe Campaign and a 3D Printer". www.bard.edu. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  6. ↑ "After a Call for Change, Artists Respond". Hyperallergic. February 13, 2015. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  7. 1 2 "Luba Drozd: Institute of Corrections". www.easternstate.org. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  8. 1 2 admini, BRIC (June 15, 2009). "BRIC Media Arts Fellowship". BRIC. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  9. 1 2 "The Studios Archive". Assets for Artists. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  10. ↑ "CIM. An exhibition of seven contemporary artists - Ukrainian Museum (NYC) Exhibition". www.ukrainianmuseum.org. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  11. 1 2 "Past Fellows". www.bronxmuseum.org. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  12. ↑ "Bronx Calling The Fourth AIM Biennial". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  13. ↑ "Light-Soaked Galleries, Meditative Street Ads, and More Art Exhibitions". Bedford + Bowery. May 15, 2017. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  14. 1 2 "Artists 2018". The Millay Colony for the Arts. Archived from the original on September 23, 2020. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  15. 1 2 Ostroth, Amy (February 22, 2018). "Virginia Center for the Creative Arts to hold salon at Sweet Briar". Sweet Briar College | News. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  16. ↑ "This is Not Here: 57 Artists Challenge the Gamut of Everything". Humble Arts Foundation. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  17. 1 2 "Luba Drozd - Artist". MacDowell Colony. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Nota Bene with @postuccio [iv] – Art Spiel". March 28, 2019. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  19. 1 2 "2019 Emergency Grants: Visual Arts :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts". www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org. Archived from the original on June 21, 2020. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  20. ↑ "The Sunview". The Sunview Luncheonette. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  21. 1 2 "In An Emergency, Art! – Yaddo". www.yaddo.org. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  22. 1 2 "A faint hum". CCS Bard. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  23. 1 2 3 Wagner, Jasmine Dreame (May 21, 2020). "Symptom of Society: Luba Drozd's PPE Fabrication Initiative by Jasmine Dreame Wagner - BOMB Magazine". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
  24. ↑ Jacobs, Andrew; Abrams, Rachel (March 30, 2020). "Hive Mind of Makers Rises to Meet Pandemic". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 25, 2023.
  25. 1 2 "Luba Drozd". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  26. 1 2 Volk, Gregory (November 3, 2022). "Two Sparse Brooklyn Exhibitions Probe the Elemental Forces of Life". Hyperallergic. Retrieved May 26, 2023.
  27. ↑ "Luba Drozd". Pioneer Works. Retrieved June 21, 2020.
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