Katherine Zhukovsky (Moscow, 1989) is a Russian-Jewish-American mixed media painter known for her expressionistic and autobiographical depictions of the feminine form. Working independently from her home studio in Los Angeles, CA, Zhukovsky catalogues the existential unease of a fleshy, fallible body that is often at odds with internal senses of being. She works intuitively with oil paint, pastel, and colored pencil on hand-stitched “frankencanvases” assembled from stained, trodden, and torn drop cloths. Feeling herself never quite at home anywhere, Zhukovsky works towards an explication of selfhood that in turn elucidates and eludes the quiet draw of belonging.