JULIA SVERCHUK

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Julia Sverchuk creates sculptural and decorative work out of stoneware on the themes of science and nature. My current series is driven by the urge to understand the nature of our physical reality as science describes it but cannot easily visualize. I explore fundamental questions that fascinate me: why does time move in only one direction? What is the shape of our universe? How did life on Earth begin? By transforming these and other scientific concepts into three-dimensional forms, I am working to understand them myself while making what's invisible become visible to others.

Bio:

Born in Moscow, Russia, Sverchuk immigrated to the US following the collapse of the Soviet Union. She holds a BFA in Illustration from Parsons, studied reportage at Dalvero Academy and wheel throwing at Choplet. Her piece Entropy was juried into the NAWA’s 2025 online exhibit and the Monmouth Art Museum’s 46th Annual Juried Exhibit. Sverchuk also exhibited at the Art Paris 2022 fair with the 1000 Vases Project. In 2015, five of Sverchuk’s sculptures about whaling were on display at the Museum of America and the Sea as part of the Dalvero Academy group show.