Congratulations to Yulia Pinkusevich! Pinkusevich, Associate Professor of Art + Design at Northeastern’s Oakland campus, has a new exhibit of paintings at Kutlesa Chelsea in New York City. The show, Oblivion Blues, is her first solo show at the gallery, opening on Thursday Sept 24th and running through Nov 7th, 2026.

Kutlesa Gallery writes: “Oblivion Blues is a series of large scale works exploring the unstable territory between abstraction and information, memory and measurement, and the systems developed to record catastrophe and the lived experience of those who endure it. Pinkusevich’s paintings originate in the isorithm, a geometric method developed in the context of civil defense to map the effects of an explosive event across inhabited terrain. Designed to render destruction measurable, these diagrams translate an otherwise immeasurable event into lines, distances, and concentric fields. The maps were created through Geographic Information System (GIS) in collaboration with Northeastern University’s Professor of Public Policy Mark Henderson, translating population and geographical data as well as contemporary global conflict into precise spatial structures. In Oblivion Blues, Pinkusevich takes this rational language as a point of departure, transforming it through the physical processes of drawing and painting into expansive and highly charged compositions.

The exhibition also incorporates a series of historic wallpaper images drawn from archival material documenting declassified CIA reconnaissance missions and aerial bombing campaigns from the 1940s and subsequent decades. Pinkusevich encountered these images during her research as a Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where archival records of aerial surveillance and military operations became part of her investigation into the ways technology has transformed violence into images, information, and systems of observation.”

Pinkusevich’s paintings are also currently on view at the Syracuse Art Museum’s exhibit “Reclaimed: The Art of Recology”, and will travel later this fall to the Westbund Art Fair (with Qualia Contemporary Art) in Shanghai, China, and the Untitled Art Fair in Miami.