Yulia Pinkusevich, associate professor in the College of Arts, Media and Design, with a collage of her own paintings and historic photos. Photo by Ruby Wallau for Northeastern University
Fresh off her Smithsonian artist research fellowship, Yulia Pinkusevich is working on a project to encourage viewers to consider the impact of each photo.
OAKLAND, Calif. — When Northeastern University associate professor Yulia Pinkusevich was 8 years old, her family fled Kharkiv, Ukraine, and immigrated to New York City. The Soviet Union was collapsing.
On the way to the airport, young Yulia saw that the asphalt near the airport was crisscrossed with grooves. They were the tracks of tanks.
“I’ve always been interested in moments of tension and how we visualize them,” Pinkusevich says. “Those marks are abstract, but they are the traces of political unrest and upheaval.”
Jan 17, 2025
