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Alissa Zilber (b. 1997) is a Canadian visual artist creating existential drawings and paintings that reveal the uncanny within everyday life. Merging abstract and representational forms, her work exposes the delicate, often unspoken connections between individuals, the spaces they inhabit, and the emotional currents that flow between them. Her paintings are impressions of shared experiences rather than portraits of specific people.

By sketching in lively, crowded settings, Alissa’s practice combines the raw immediacy of real life moments with fleeting daydreams, resulting in introspective, liminal scenes. Her painterly approach blends traditional figuration with a stylized sensibility to composition and vivid colour palettes. Working with a variety of materials — such as graphite, charcoal, acrylic, and spray paint — she produces works ranging from intimate, small-scale depictions of solitude to life-sized figures grappling with connection and alienation.

Her recent work is centered around people’s individual, vulnerable moments amidst the lively energy of mosh pits, crowds, and nightlife. Through these paintings, Alissa reimagines tender glimpses of daily life, layering and manipulating the painting surface until the image emerges, simulating the ebb and flow of a room as it fills up and empties with people.

Alissa’s distinct world — caught between spatial and emotional realms — comes to life through bold colours and expressive strokes, with darkness serving as a place for hidden emotions and unspoken stories to reside.

Contact:

alissa.zilber@yahoo.ca
@johnnyfraud

Artwork prices and CV available upon request.

© Alissa Zilber 2024