CONTACT
art@anastasiatumanova.com
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BIOGRAPHY
Anastasia Tumanova is a Russian American ceramic artist who currently lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her ceramic work is inspired by the flora and natural surroundings of her home in California. She captures the spirit of nature by translating its shapes, patterns, textures, and colors into abstract, dimensional artworks that venerate nature's beauty and bring the outdoors inside.
Tumanova has shown her work at Minnesota Street Project, West Coast Craft, Rare Device, and Oakland First Friday. Some of her corporate clients include The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Google, and Walt Disney World. Anastasia received her Bachelor of Art from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2009, and worked for a decade as a graphic designer before she became a full time ceramic artist. Her training as a designer has informed her process and graphic approach to working with clay. Russian by birth, Anastasia's artwork is influenced by traditional Russian arts: ceramics, enamelware, architecture, lacquerware, textiles, and music.
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ARTIST STATEMENT
My earliest memory of seeing art in my natural surroundings was observing a strand of red currants at my family's dacha in Moscow, Russia and feeling an outpouring of delight. I experience joyful moments like this everyday when observing elegant strands of Eucalyptus, bobbing heads of Nasturtium, and sunny yellow buttercups. I channel these moments of delight in my ceramic arrangements, a medium that allows me to capture color, form, texture, movement, and dimensionality. My artwork is playful, dynamic, and calming. When I create, I improvise like a musician; every artwork is made emotively in the present moment.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXHIBITIONS
2024 [UPCOMING] Solo Exhibition, SOBU Gallery, Oakland, CA
2019 Group Exhibition, Heron Arts, Sanctuary, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibition, Oakland First Friday at Local Language SUNFLOWER, Oakland, CA
Solo Exhibition, Rare Device, Blue Reverie, San Francisco, CA
2018 Group Exhibition, Eleanor Harwood Gallery, Pleasure Garden, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, West Coast Craft, WCC San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Group Exhibition, First Amendment Gallery, Lately, San Francisco, CA
2017 Solo Exhibition, Artspan, Goddesses & Gardens, San Francisco, CA
Solo Exhibition, Tasja P. Presents We Are Clay, Copenhagen, Denmark
SELECT COMMISSIONS
2023 White Mural — Google HQ, San Francisco, CA
Stems Installation — We Are Taylor HQ, San Francisco, CA
2022 Mandala Wild II, Kaiser Permanente, Manteca, CA
Verdant Loom, Private Collection, Ann Arbor, MI
Eucalyptus Mural, San Francisco, CA
Eucalyptus Quadriptych, Corporate Collection, San Francisco, CA
2021 Living Leaf Mural, Google Headquarters, San Francisco, CA
Waterfall Looms, Walt Disney World, Orlando, CA
Terra Cotta Mandala, Virgin Hotels, Las Vegas, NV
Diego Rivera Museum Store Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
SELECT PRESS
HENRY, San Francisco Design Center, Ceramic Culture
Remodelista, Meet the Makers
Design Wanted, Unique ceramic murals made by Anastasia Tumanova
In Her Studio Magazine, Autumn 2020 Issue The Visual Language of Nature
Luxe Interiors & Design, Earth Works
TEACHING
Mosaics & Tile — The Potters Studio, Berkeley, CA, Spring 2023
Intermediate Ceramics — Dusted & Blue Ceramic Studio, San Francisco, CA, 2020
Introduction to Ceramics — Clayroom, San Francisco, CA, 2018
After-School Ceramics, The Hamlin School, San Francisco, CA 2018
EDUCATION
2009 BFA Graphic Design, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL
2006 BA Violin Performance, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, IL