Alisa Yoffe
Alisa Yoffe works in a very recognizable style: a minimalist black and white palette, broad brush strokes, deliberately nonchalant, but very legible images. This style, often found in traditionally analog media like graphic arts and painting, has migrated organically into digital art over time.
Alisa Yoffe
The drawings that Yoffe composes on her mobile phone look like hand-drawn work, in no way resembling the “perfected” images and symbols we’re accustomed to seeing on our gadget screens. Thus, the artist humanizes a cold digital environment. Yoffe transfers some of her drawings to canvases and walls — again, by hand — alongside random artifacts, like fragments of erased lines.
Alisa Yoffe was born in 1987 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. She studied at the Free Workshops at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Institute of Problems in Contemporary Art, and under the artist Anatoly Osmolovsky.
Yoffe’s work has appeared in the most famous Russian art markets, Cosmoscow and Blazar. Her work has been exhibited at solo shows in Russia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Sweden. The artist’s work is also held in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the V-A-C Foundation, the Perm Museum of Con-temporary Art, and the Phoenix Art Museum. Alisa was nominated for the Joseph Brodsky Memorial Fellowship Fund (2017), the American Academy in Rome (2017–2018).
In addition to her solo projects, Yoffe is known for collaborations with a number of famous brands, including Comme des Garçons and Cartier. She has also worked with the Georgian humanitarian center Choose to Help, which aids Ukrainian refugees. The artist left Russia at the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She now resides and works in Paris.