Epoxy resin, a medium both contemporary and versatile, stands at the core of Tatiana Zaytseva’s artistic practice. For the Artist, resin is not merely a material; it is a vehicle for exploration, innovation, and profound artistic expression. With its unique ability to capture light, shift transparency, and layer colors in a fluid dialogue, resin offers her an unparalleled means of creating artworks that transcend the ordinary. Each piece she creates is a delicate study of how material, light, and color interact, revealing new depths and tones as resin layers merge and transform.
Beyond the technical elements, Tatiana’s resin artworks carry a profound conceptual dimension. In many of her works, she engages in a dialogue with the great masters of art, such as Mark Rothko, Georgia O'Keeffe, Piet Mondrian, and Claude Monet. By interpreting their iconic works through resin, she adds her own perspective, creating a unique fusion of tradition and modernity. The transparency of resin allows for subtle shifts in color and form, offering a fresh take on their legacies.
Tatiana has developed several techniques with epoxy resin, each serving a distinct purpose and evoking different emotions and perceptions. Whether it’s the play of light through translucent layers or the bold interaction of vibrant colors, her resin works invite viewers to experience art in a new way. These pieces are not just a study of material but an ongoing conversation about the possibilities of art, inviting the viewer to reflect on the intersection of medium, history, and innovation.
“Since I was a philosophy student, I’ve internalized Socrates’s quote: ‘Truth is born in dispute.’ In my work, I don’t necessarily seek conflict but rather dialogue. It’s within this exchange that something new can emerge.” For Tatiana Zaytseva, art is an ever-evolving conversation, a meeting point where ideas, forms, and influences converge without the need for resolution. This dialogic approach invites exchanges with masters of the past, different eras, elements of nature, and the viewer’s own perception. Each piece becomes a platform for discovery, where the resonance between contrasts and connections unveils fresh perspectives. In this space, Tatiana’s work transforms into a reflective mirror of human complexity, allowing truth to surface through shared experience and contemplation.
In these series of artworks the artist engages in a dialogue with the art of Mark Rothko. Tatiana creates a perpetual dynamic flow from Rothko’s color fields, extracting the inner context of each field, and revealing the hidden tones, colors, and relationships between them. Rothko’s color fields were never painted in a single plane; they always contained depth and middle tones. Tatiana takes this further by creating dynamism and interflow between the fields. The geometric construction is in constant movement, with each layer having its own color and transparency level, which changes when overlaid with other layers. The artist aims to show that the painting becomes alive, breathing, and moving.
The artist delves into the philosophical exploration of perception and reality. By transforming Rothko’s static color fields into dynamic, interwoven layers, Tatiana invites viewers to reflect on the fluid nature of existence and the interplay of seen and unseen forces. Each layer represents a fragment of experience, and their interaction symbolizes the complexity of human perception—ever-changing, multi-dimensional, and deeply interconnected. Through this artistic process, the artwork transcends its physical boundaries, becoming a living entity that breathes and evolves with the viewer's perspective, embodying the constant flux of life itself
with GEOGIA O'KEEFFE
Tatiana Zaytseva’s series pays tribute to Georgia O’Keeffe’s iconic floral paintings while engaging in a profound dialogue between her contemporary vision and O’Keeffe’s legacy. By analyzing and deconstructing O’Keeffe’s works into elemental color fields, Tatiana synthesizes new compositions using resin and pigments, creating layers where color, light, and depth interplay through varying intensity and transparency. This modern approach honors the essence of O’Keeffe’s exploration of femininity, capturing grace and resilience in a fresh, contemporary context. Tatiana’s pieces celebrate feminine energy, reflecting the intricate beauty and strength found in O’Keeffe’s art while inviting viewers to explore nuanced layers of emotion. Her work serves as a bridge across eras, merging past and present to reveal the timeless interconnectedness of artistic expression, perception, and life.
with
CLAUDE MONET
Artist’s approach to Monet’s work begins with a deep exploration of his timeless 'Water Lilies' masterpiece (1914-1926) and the creation of a new resin painting technique that opens a fresh dialogue with the master. Selecting a fragment of Monet’s expansive vision, Tatiana reinterprets its essence, transforming it into a “pixelated” encounter through the transparent layers of epoxy resin. This method captures the fluidity and movement of Monet’s lilies, where colors and light interact to evoke the spirit of his work while offering a modern perspective that bridges past and present.
In a unique synergy of art and literature, Tatiana immersed herself in Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas while crafting this piece. The novel’s descriptions of the underwater world wove seamlessly into her process, enriching the work with an extraordinary blend of visual and auditory inspiration. To share this layered experience, Tatiana created a short film of the painting’s development, reading Verne’s vivid descriptions in her native Russian. By inviting viewers into her artistic journey, Tatiana reveals how different forms of inspiration can resonate within an artwork, encouraging a multifaceted and immersive experience of both the piece and its creative influences.
with
PIET MONDRIAN
One more powerful dialogue of Tatiana is with Piet Mondrian’s Place de la Concorde (1943), reinterpreted through her innovative technique to capture the transformation of a place across decades. Recreating Mondrian’s lines and colors with meticulous precision, she establishes a connection to his original work before layering her own dynamic construction over it, symbolizing the evolving pulse of Place de la Concorde in the 21st century.
This artwork reflects how places and perceptions shift, as they absorb new histories, people, and energies. Mondrian’s composition remains visible beneath, yet altered—now a foundation for new shapes and colors that embody the speed and complexity of today’s world. Through this abstract layering, Tatiana invites viewers to see how the same location can hold two vastly different realities across time, illustrating a compelling dialogue between past and present, static and dynamic.
