Veronika Bondarenko
Over
Painting
2025
Oil on canvas
36 × 48 × 1.5 in
A body-scale oil painting exploring chromatic intensity, transformation, and the threshold where beauty becomes pressure.
“Over is a painting of too much: too much colour, too much feeling, too much force pressing toward release. Built through saturated colour, layered gesture, and bodily scale, the painting presses joy, longing, beauty, and strain into the same field. Its surface feels radiant but unstable, as if colour is carrying more energy than it can contain. Forms surge, dissolve, and reassemble through the image, creating a threshold between attraction and overwhelm, pleasure and pressure, release and collapse.”

Work by
Veronika Bondarenko
Drawing and Painting
“I make paintings for the moment before recognition, when form is felt before it is fixed. In oil, images gather through glazing, abrasion, concealment, and revision, holding shells, seeds, vessels,...” [More]