About
Evgeniia Strashko is an interdisciplinary visual and textile artist based in Woodbridge, New Jersey. She has approximately fifteen years of independent artistic practice and works primarily with dry felting, hand embroidery, acrylic on textile, and mixed media. Her figurative work is connected to naive art and brings together people, birds and animals, saints, and personal interpretations of sacred imagery. Strashko’s exhibition history began in St. Petersburg in 2021 and continued in Tbilisi, Georgia, where she participated in group exhibitions and presented solo bodies of work. Since relocating to New Jersey, she has exhibited at the Barron Arts Center and Gallery on Main in Woodbridge and participated in the online exhibition What The Folk II with Carnival Gallery. Her work was also included in the 6th International Festival of Naive Art New Day in St. Petersburg. Her works are held in private collections in the United States, Australia, Europe, Georgia, and Russia.
Statement
I make textile and mixed-media works with wool, fabric, thread, paper, acrylic on textile, hand embroidery, and dry felting. My work is mostly figurative. People, birds, animals, saints, and symbolic figures often share the same space. Women are woven into this same world, and I often show their fragility and tenderness together. I watch birds and animals around me every day and keep written notes about what I see. Their behavior, small movements, and presence stay with me and later enter my work. I think a lot about how human life exists beside the living world and how easily we stop noticing that connection. Sacred images are another important part of my work. I often use the structure of traditional Christian icons freely, turning familiar forms into personal sacred images. I like bringing the sacred closer to ordinary life. I think of saints first as people: imperfect, making choices, and finding their own way of relating to the world around them. Naive art feels natural to me because it gives me freedom from academic rules. I value its directness, symbolism, and closeness to a child’s way of seeing. A simple image can carry a lot without becoming complicated. The process of making matters as much to me as the finished image. Felting and embroidery are slow and repetitive. They calm me and give me time to turn inward and hear my own thoughts. I usually begin with a figure or an image and let it change while I work, following the material one stitch, one piece of fabric, or one piece of wool at a time.
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 Visualize the Score — Barron Arts Center, Woodbridge, NJ, USA · Juried exhibition
2026 Pattern Play — Gallery on Main, Woodbridge, NJ, USA · Juried exhibition
2026 What The Folk II — Carnival Gallery · Online group exhibition
2026 — Prismatic Horizons, Anthology Gallery × Poetic Tiger Gallery, Online Group Exhibition.
2025 Group Women Exhibition — Coworking Adventure, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 What Women Keep Silent About — Frame Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia · Solo exhibition
2024 The Human Festival — PsyDom, Tbilisi, Georgia · Festival presentation
2024 Naive Icons & Sacred Images — U Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia · Group exhibition
2024 Body Language — Zazerkalie, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 Homecoming — Sistersroom, Tbilisi, Georgia
2023 Women Portraits — Vagabond Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia · Solo exhibition
2023 Forms of Love — Zazerkalie, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 6th International Festival of Naive Art “New Day” — St. Petersburg, Russia
2021 The Art of the Doll International Exhibition — St. Petersburg, Russia
SELECTED BODIES OF WORK
Non-Canonical Sacred Images (c. 2023–2026). Sacred figures and animals in textile and fiber.
What Women Keep Silent About (2022–2024). Embroidered female portraits.
Figurative Sculpture and Dolls (earlier practice). Wool, textile, clay, and mixed materials.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2023 Fox Bay Art Blog — Featured artist interview, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 New Day: 6th International Festival of Naive Art — Exhibition catalog, St. Petersburg, Russia
SELECTED ONLINE FEATURES
2026 — 5 Creators to Add to Your Feed This October, The Garden, Instagram Group Feature.
2026 — Artist Spotlight, ArtScene Press, Instagram Artist Feature.