Paintings from the “Postanovka” Series by Tule Clow
Tule Clow was born in Arcata, California, in 1977 and currently lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. She graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine, where she studied drawing under Thomas Cornell, known for his empirical drawings and paintings with themes of social justice. Clow later studied painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Art from 2012 to 2018. Her work has been exhibited in both London and St. Petersburg galleries.
Between 2014 and 2018, Clow produced her “Copies” series of works, executed inside the Hermitage Museum, which consisted of painted fragmental scenes from the works of Titian, Jacopo Tintoretto, and Paolo Veronese, the three great rival painters of the Italian Renaissance. Her 2016-2018 “Postanovka” series of paintings was the result of her investigation into postanovka, or постановка, the academic Russian art form of using live models in a staged set.