Olga Lomaka 'Teasing Not Pleasing' (Yellow) Print Available

Artist: Olga Lomaka
Title: Teasing Not Pleasing (Yellow)
Medium: Varnished 4 Color Screen Print
Size: 21.6 x 29.5 Inches
Edition: 10
Price: $545

 

Olga Lomaka is a British contemporary artist, curator, and founder of Lomaka Gallery, celebrated for her vibrant pop-art fusion that merges consumerist icons with surreal symbolism. Born in Krasnodar, Russia, in 1982, she moved to Moscow as a child and later studied in the United States, completing painting courses at Loyola University Chicago and earning a business degree from George Mason University. A decade later she relocated to London, graduating with a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts and attending Central Saint Martins and Sotheby’s Institute to deepen her art-world fluency.

Lomaka’s signature style teases the boundary between concrete and abstract, familiar and unknown. She hijacks recognizable imagery luxury logos, celebrity faces, brand mascots and reconfigures them through carving, aerography, and mixed media to expose hidden desires and social contradictions. Her glossy palettes and polished finishes evoke advertising slickness, yet subtle distortions and double meanings invite viewers to question consumerist promises. Portraits of Jude Law, Karl Lagerfeld, and Naomi Campbell become mirrors of collective obsession, while her monumental pieces for the Queen’s 90th birthday or Frieze London embed national symbols within playful psychedelic frames.

Beyond canvas, Lomaka experiments with sculpture, installation, and fashion, launching limited apparel printed with her Mind Parasites series and hosting the television program Art & Fashion. Her work is held by the Erarta Museum, M17 Contemporary Art Center, and private foundations including Pierre Cardin’s, and she exhibits regularly at the Venice Biennale, Basel Miami, and the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2017 she opened Lomaka Gallery in Fitzrovia, championing emerging voices who defy categorization. Awards such as Best Contemporary Artist of the Year from Phillips Auction House recognize her restless innovation. Whether rendering screaming aliens or meditating figures, Lomaka positions pop culture as a portal to explore identity, desire, and the collective unconscious, proving that glittering surfaces can illuminate profound human truths.