Artist

Ukrainian-born and Brooklyn-raised, Eugene Korsunskiy received his BA with Honors in Art from Williams College. He has worked in the studio of Jenny Holzer, and now lives in Chapel Hill, where his days are spent drawing, painting, teaching kids how to swim, bicycling, and working on grad school applications.

How much can we really control? Whether you believe the world to be ruled by laws of physics or whims of chance, not much room seems to remain for free will, and the combination of hopelessness and stubborn tenacity that comes from this realization is an amusing place from which to act. I started this series by embracing my fascination with little accidents like coffee stains and the way that ink bleeds through wet paper, and tried to learn something about myself from the way I interacted with them. The real joy for me here lies in seeing what the materials themselves want to do, and in balancing control and chance by meticulously setting up a set of conditions in which variables are allowed to play out as they will. I hope that you find in this work something that I didn't mean to put in.