DVAA Member since 2023
Varvàra Fern
Website: varvarart.com
About:
Varvàra Fern is an artist and a sculptor. Born in 1999, she grew up in Moscow, Russia and has been sculpting since her early childhood. She entered Moscow Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov where she studied classic and figurative art. Varvàra transferred to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where she earned a Bachelor Degree in Fine Arts and sculpture. Currently living and making art in Philadelphia, she is continuing her education through PAFA’s Master of Fine Arts program. Varvàra creates representational sculptures using clay and casts them in resin, plaster, or bronze. Evoking both physical and emotional treks, most of her works reflect her travel experience and focus on journeys, travelers, and road landscapes. Varvàra is an elected member at the National Sculpture Society. She has had her works exhibited in numerous galleries throughout the USA, including at PAFA, National Sculpture Society, Arch Enemy Arts, and Gross McCleaf Gallery.Artist Statement:
Artist Statement - My work reflects my fascination with movement and my lifelong love-affair with the beauty of road landscapes. I’ve been traveling the entire world since I was thirteen. These voyages became one of the main sources of my inspiration and defined my art. This experience also convinced me that travel is a great way to shift one’s life into a different direction. A person can always find something new in a journey. Maybe even happiness. In my work I show people beginning their travel from trauma and unhappiness to finding themselves and reaching harmony. My journeys also taught me to see the beauty in road landscapes. They come in many amazing forms: roads, trains, railways, highways, utility poles… All these things have incredibly beautiful shapes. Their form hypnotizes me every time, as if I am watching unique sculptures. My creations transform my perceptions and emotions into actual sculptures reflecting the mesmerizing shapes and the unique atmosphere I have experienced. I work in oil based clay. I’ve been sculpting with oil based clay since my childhood and this material is like a language that I fluently speak as it allows me to give form to all my ideas. Oil based clay is one of the best materials to make casts. So, this medium is perfect to experiment with other materials. I invite you to travel with my imagination…
