DROP AFTER LIGHTING ✦ solo show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery ✦ Los Angeles, CA ✦ January 9 - February 1, 2026
Anka Yanovna is a multidisciplinary artist who works in a variety of media to paint entities both strange and sweet, as they emerge from alternate dimensions intersecting our reality. A devoted environmentalist and lover of Planet Earth, her work explores the natural world and our relationship to it through the eyepiece of a color drenched telescope. In these visions, living robots grow from intelligent trees, flower girls bloom over a cup of grub tea, and colorful cats carry the weight of the world on their heads. Themes of love, connection, and the joy of discovery are underpinned by serious reflections on the growing imbalance between humanity and the natural world which sustains us. Through it all, she firmly believes in the power of humor and optimism to draw viewers into her worlds. It may be weird out there, but we are not alone.
Anka was born in St. Petersburg, Russia and spent her formative years living and working in New York City before establishing her current practice in New England. A professional artist and businesswoman for over ten years, she understands the responsibility and commitment required to deliver quality, creative work for clients on a deadline.
email: anka [at] agblend13.com
phone: 207-558-2521
✦ selected work ✦
original concepts and characters created by Anka Yanovna
skills
✦ Traditional painter working with acrylics for over 15 years
✦ Traditional + digital collage
✦ Digital painting + graphics : vector / raster
✦ Simple animations + GIF art
✦ Sculpture work : plaster / paper mache / polymer clay
♡ Always experimenting, always learning
commercial work
✦ Cover art for "Inner Worlds" literary zine
✦ Food packaging artwork for FFT International
✦ Graphics and branding for "The Indescribable Wow" radio program.
✦ Graphics and branding for WCFA radio station.
✦ Logo design for Maine Art Council
experience
✦ Selling art directly to collectors for over 10 years
✦ Exhibiting artist with galleries across the US and UK for 5 years
✦ Excellent customer service with over 200 five star reviews on Etsy
select exhibition history
2026
"Drop After Lighting" Mini Solo at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Impermanence" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK
"The Upward Spiral" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK (upcoming)
"Mementos of Spirit" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK (upcoming)
"Microvisions 9" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK (upcoming)
"Meowtopia II" group show at Poetic Tiger Gallery, Boise, ID (upcoming)
Art Showcase at KEEP Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM (upcoming)
2025
"Meowtopia" group show at Poetic Tiger Gallery, Boise, ID
"What the Folk" group show at Poetic Tiger Gallery, Boise, ID
"Post Op" group show at Brassworks Gallery, Portland, OR (sold out)
"Everything But The Kitschen Sink" group show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (sold out)
"Submerge" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK
"Rare Phenomena" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK
10th Annual Postcard Show at Nucleus Portland, Portland OR
3rd Annual Postcard Show at Brassworks Gallery, Portland, OR (sold out)
"Moments of Illumination" group show at Wow x Wow Gallery, UK
2024
“Small Works Exhibition” group show at Glave Kocen Petite, Richmond, VA
“Everything But The Kitchen Sink” group show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (sold out)
“Enchanted Kingdoms” group show at Poetic Tiger Gallery, Boise, ID
“Cute and Creepy” group show at Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (sold out)
2nd Annual Postcard Show at Brassworks Gallery, Portland, OR (sold out)
2023
“Everything But The Kitchen Sink” group show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022
“Annual Members Show” at the Maine Art Gallery, Wiscassett, ME
“Everything But The Kitchen Sink” group show at La Luz de Jesus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
