Jana Gouchev

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Jana Gouchev is an artist and art critic in Manhattan. It is clear from her work that Gouchev approaches art as a powerful agent of change. Her paintings, often of a delicately seductive nature, deliver a biting critique of the overall current state of society.

From floating red arches, clusters of dried leaves, and canvas made to look like stone, Gouchev’s paintings have a humor and feistiness rarely found in art today.

Maintaining that all her work is a reaction to reality, Gouchev’s compositions are actively improvisational. Her art introduces irreverence and, at times, sexual innuendo by punctuating ragged blocks of layered color with darting lines, splatters of ink spread like dance steps, and quasi signs echoing street art.

Jana Gouchev is the founder and editor-in-chief of Notion, the visual arts and fashion magazine, and an editorial manager at The New York Times.

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