HIDDI—Viktor Kobylianski at One Grand Gallery

One Grand Gallery is pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Portland-based artist Viktor Kobylianski. “HIDDI” is an exploration of internal reckoning through the use of mineral dust and pigment on canvas. Abstract paintings and sculptures in soft pastel tones appear almost obscured, hinting at possibilities of figuration or interpretation. Kobylianski’s background in music production further informs his visual practice through a sensitivity to rhythm, layering, and atmosphere. Memory and hidden meaning serve as the emotional foundation for the artist’s visual expression. Works such as “bubbles” inspire a hopeful sentimentality, the blue shapes taking form on the surface of the canvas alluding to an unbridled effervescence rising to the top. In turn, works such as “eraser diptych” perhaps inform the opposite, a scrubbing or erasure of signification across the large swaths of pink pigment. What remain are the contours of an assumed structure left up to the viewer’s imagination. Viktor Kobylianski (b.1995 Kyiv, Ukraine) employs a visual practice rooted in the synthesis of pigments, mineral matter, and fabric. Through a tactile and intuitive process, he creates compositions that rest between painting and sculpture. His mark-making is expressed with fading pigments, muted surfaces, and blank spaces achieved through the mixing of non-traditional mediums. His work reflects on memory, incompleteness, and the impermanence of perception.