Untitled 2022

This untitled work by Alevtyna Kakhidze is a drawing in what looks like graphite and crayon, and it feels like a page torn from a larger sketchbook. The directness of the mark-making here is striking, and I get a sense that the artmaking process is immediate and unfiltered. The red crayon that fills the figure’s body is applied in a way that feels urgent, almost like a stain. The lines are loose, but there’s a physicality to the color that gives the figure weight. The crayon marks don't just describe the form; they embody a feeling, a raw emotional state. Then there’s the figure itself, seemingly floating, yet grounded by this intense, raw red. The urgency is what makes this piece so compelling. It makes me think of artists like Philip Guston, who also embraced a kind of raw, unfiltered expression in their work. Like Guston, Kakhidze seems less concerned with technical perfection and more interested in capturing the messy, contradictory nature of experience.