NEW YORK, NY.- Sargents’ Daughters will present Dreamfeeding, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Yevgeniya Baras. The exhibition will be on view through October 18th, 2025.

Dreamfeeding is a quiet, intimate moment of connection between parent and child. This state parallels the ways that the artist's work is born and how she invites the viewer to receive and encounter it. For Baras, the title reflects on nourishment, conscious and subconscious, as well as the power of care, and the hushed moments of contemplation we find in the night.

As a mother of two young children, Baras' relationship to time has changed. There is a direct translation of that relationship in the painting: the rapid dying process of fabric next to the laborious accumulation of oil-painted surface, as well as fast and slow passages that co-exist. Like tiles in a mosaic, the segments within the works are at once individual units of meaning and parts of a greater narrative. The compartmentalization of space in paintings parallels the way time is subdivided and portioned in Baras' life.

These works are premised on their borders: the painted or textural frames surround and raised lines divide the compositions into sections, cells and nooks. Many works have edges that expose the linen or burlap support, some dyed with thin washes of pigment that contrast the slowly built up centers. Other works have brightly painted lines outlining the central forms, clearly marking an interior and an exterior. For Baras, these borders are central to the work, holding and embracing it while defining its space and containing its meaning. The lines within them create further divisions, smaller units of detail and meaning that interconnect with one another.

Baras’ personal symbology considers the unconscious, architecture in relation to the body, and the strata of multiple histories. Shapes seem to suggest the human body, or fragments of the body, like footprints, eyes, or faces. The body is also present in the handling of paint and surface, in the many types of actions that the artist’s body takes to communicate these ideas: sewing, molding, dying, painting. Symbols address places and topographies that have personal meaning to Baras as well as imagined terrain.

The compositions are at once abstract and rooted in the material of life; they are fragments of a dream, half remembered but weighty with emotion.