After the Dream by Nataliia Ivaniv
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Medium: acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 60 x 80 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $950.00 USD
Status: available
“After the Dream” grew from that fragile moment between sleeping and waking, when a feeling remains even as the images that created it begin to dissolve. I wanted to hold onto that quiet uncertainty, the sense that something intimate has just happened within us, yet cannot be fully named. I built the surface in veils of blue, lavender, blush, and muted earth tones, allowing forms to appear and disappear beneath layers of acrylic. The gestures move like fragments of memory: some soft and atmospheric, others more insistent, as if the dream is resisting its own disappearance. Scraped passages and textured marks preserve the rhythm of searching, while areas of pale light offer pauses where the mind can rest. The composition does not resolve into a single image because dreams rarely do. Instead, it invites intuition to complete what is unfinished. I hope this work creates a space for viewers to meet their own half-remembered stories. I want it to feel both calming and slightly elusive, like waking with an emotion you cannot explain, but somehow know is true.
Why collect this work?
After the Dream repeatedly submerges saturated blue marks within a pale, vertically oriented field. This decision makes incomplete recognition the subject: forms seem close to coherence, then disperse into surrounding colour.
- Ivaniv describes her practice as converting fleeting digital experience into physical, layered painting. That intention supports reading the interruptions as residues or signal-like fragments, although the visible result is predominantly atmospheric rather than architectural.
- In the photograph, blue gathers in irregular concentrations amid lavender-grey, dusty pink, white, and muted brown. Open passages separate denser clusters, establishing a rhythm of emergence and erasure without producing a stable figure.
- The catalogue records acrylic on canvas, dated 2026, at 60 by 80 cm. Acrylic can accommodate both veiled and opaque layering; here, overlapping applications make earlier marks appear partially retained. The photograph cannot confirm relief or exact surface texture.
- Within an account of how abstraction carries narrative, this painting establishes a productive limit: its title suggests an aftermath, while its dispersed forms withhold the event itself. Memory is structured as remaining sensation rather than illustrated scene.
About the Artist
Nataliia Ivaniv
Nataliia Ivaniv is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: painting. Based in Ivano-Frankivsk, UA.
Nationality: Ukrainian
I’m interested in color as a psychological space rather than decoration.
