art imitating life
>> Although Sasha Pivovarova only walked in one show — Anna Sui — last week, she had another, more personal show on her mind. On Friday, Sasha hosted "I Spy" in New York, her first ever photography and drawing exhibition. Her artwork has been published in Vogue, Teen Vogue, and Vogue Paris before, and she works with mediums as farfetched as wine and coffee. Yes, that's right, models do have lives other than getting their hair, nails, and makeup done 1,343,234 times a day . . . and, from what I can gather, Sasha likes self-portraits.
*images: wireimage, getty
wow thank you! i've been dying to see her works for so long yet kind of surprised she photographs as well
Posted by: DUDBLANKPATHETIC | February 13, 2008 at 11:45 AM
well, wine and coffee isnt so far fetched if you think about the things art students do now. but anyways i am a big fan of her drawings!! i really LOVE them!! not so much her photography, but her drawings are superb! its soo interesting to see her in this state (pic above), she looks so messy yet ambitious and hard working; she looks like an artist! well done sasha, well done!!
Posted by: TiM | February 13, 2008 at 09:17 PM
a supermodel obsessed with self-portraits? how very exciting, er, i mean, completely self-centered and narcissistic.
Posted by: spencer | February 13, 2008 at 10:36 PM
I'm not crazy about the photographs, but I like this charcoal (?) drawing.
Posted by: anniet | February 14, 2008 at 12:38 AM
My friend and I saw her at Bed Bath and Beyond during the time that the Marc Jacobs show was prepping and starting and we wondered why she was not there.
Well, she was looking at blenders with her Russian guy friend. She did not seem very happy about it either.
Posted by: Laura | February 14, 2008 at 11:09 AM
1. I wonder if she always looks that insane in person. She scares me sometimes.
2. The self-portrait kind of looks like Gemma, no? Check the left eye!
Posted by: Jon | February 14, 2008 at 11:56 AM
i love the blue one.
Posted by: e | February 14, 2008 at 10:07 PM
come on. anyone who has had decent visual art training can tell that these are all terrible. the only thing that makes you want to look at them is that they're pictures of a beautiful person. mediocre pictures of a beautiful person.
Posted by: Julia Hermanns | February 15, 2008 at 01:31 AM
i really liked the photos but these are very sketchy i agree with julia, they're drawings of a very beautiful person, she has a haunting face and it's nice to look at. the drawing up there doesn't even look finished, looks like a quick sketch taken out of a sketchbook and blown up in size. but i do enjoy them.
Posted by: angela | February 16, 2008 at 05:37 PM
I like it.I kind of want some t shirts with her drawings on them.
Posted by: Brad | February 17, 2008 at 03:11 PM
To be totally honest the drawings are rubbish. The photographs are unimaginative.
Why can't people these days stick to what they do best?
Great model, bad artist.
Posted by: vintagekeeks | February 18, 2008 at 12:36 PM
Hello. i borrowed two of your pic from this art exhibition. hope you don't mind? or else i will remove them aswell as my blogpost.
Take care.
Posted by: ediot | February 18, 2008 at 03:22 PM
did she whip these out in 10 minutes?
connections are connections and art is subjective, but it's still alittle sad that mediocre student drawings are getting more attention then something of actual quality.
Posted by: unimpressed | February 22, 2008 at 01:52 AM
I don't know, she'll always be the poor mans Gemma to me. There's just something so...mangy about her?
She doesn't look lean or willowy, just...unhealthy. And her portraits are cool, once. 200 sasha portraits in lipstick/charcoal/whatever? Thanks, i'll pass.
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Posted by: vv | February 27, 2008 at 08:59 AM
Is this still on? If it is, where is it? It does look amazingly self-centered and not-so-artistic, but I still want to see it in person! Haha... I'm going to NYC the 20th so I'd totally go...
Posted by: Katy | March 10, 2008 at 04:58 PM
Um...Her work is trash. She can't draw and has no sense of light in her work. The only reason she has a show is because she's a model. Kids half her age can draw better than that.
Posted by: Winnie | March 27, 2008 at 02:52 AM
She strikes me as very narcissistic. The drawings are really crap, they look like the stuff we did freshman year of high school to avoid doing real art.
I saw an interview with her and she seemed to like talking about why photographers liked her, something about her face. Pretty dull.
Posted by: Tasha Wisniewski | March 31, 2008 at 12:47 AM
Sasha has mad talent.
Maybe she seems misunderstood to most, but her skills are legit and technical.
Come to the central coast, dearest!!
Posted by: Chris Carroll | April 16, 2008 at 12:40 AM