photo by Nagi Ademet

One of the biggest pleasures for me is a collaboration with talented artists in other fields. I importune many of my friends with «Let’s do something cool together», and sometimes it works out. Recently I made a collaboration project with a swiss ceramic artist Bettina Ammann.

many photos — cut how we made it and what we finally had

I’m exploring two levels transparent framing. These two works go in October to Affordable Art Fair in UK (with 9 more).



bigger size and few photos of the process

I have to count once, how many sketchbooks do I already have, because people keep asking me. I answer «a lot». I guess, around 25-30. Every sketchbook is really different, some are old are from the art academy, some — from travel, from work, and they contain all the interesting things I can find and stick or draw. I carry my sketchbook everywhere with me and really feel it is kind of my «home», my private space, where I can hide while drawing. So, I invite you to see my inspiration, sketches and the way of thinking.




many-many sketchbook pages

I like when something that looks like art pops up from unexpected places. Like a mirror effect on my web camera — for days I’m absolutely ensorcelled by it’s accidental symmetry.

It even hasn’t enough place for my stamp :) Still thinking about the name…

* not for sale.

See the old porcelain statuette in the middle? I got from my grandma. And she got it from her pupils while being a teacher of Russian literature and language in Minsk. It used to stand in the the buffet, behind the glass, and as a child I was forbidden to play with it. Of course I took it out of the buffet when nobody was around. But, well, it wasn’t so interesting to play with it anyway. Later, I read Gogol’s «Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka» and recognized that scene. Cool book, btw — ukranian fantastic realism :)

Two puppet heads next to it I bought in a puppet-workshop in Burma. It was to heavy to carry around the whole dolls in backpack. The funny bird with long legs and a gramophone next to it I bought on a flea market in Jaffa. And a little bear in the left corner — it’s a Russian Winnie-the-Pooh, yes, Russian Winnie-the-Pooh is black! But this one has also unusual long gray fur. My dad was carrying it around as a talisman. Then gave it to me, when we met after 17 years.

and finally:

I’ve decided to make some photo-reference for my art

«Urbanix Gallery is proud to present Japonaiserie: A group exhibition featuring works by Zoya Cherkassky, Tatyana Luxemburg and Lena Revenko. The opening reception takes place on Thursday, September 10th at 8PM and runs through October 12th.»

So if you are in Israel the next month, please, welcome. I’ll be in the gallery tomorrow for the opening show!



I would like as well to show you a little part of my inspirations by japanese culture.

Utagawa Toyokuni, a great master of woodblock prints, the most amazing of Kabuki actors.



MOE, a magazine of contemporary art and children book’s illustration. Actually, all my art way started with a help of one of MOE’s editors and now a friend of mine, Morishita Noriko.


more, more, more japanese inspiration

Yesterday, while I was making obsessive dots and tiny lines on that monster from the previous post, my friend Lilach was drawing beautiful sketches with ink:



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Couple of posts ago there was a sketch for this work.
I’m very excited about chinese monsters, I bought all books with ancient illustrations I could find.