Lesya Malskaya's "Mosaic of Life" displayed in the Bluestein Department Store Building in downtown Charleston. | Facebook/Lesya Malskaya
Lesya Malskaya's "Mosaic of Life" displayed in the Bluestein Department Store Building in downtown Charleston. | Facebook/Lesya Malskaya
The Charleston art and business communities are collaborating in an effort to beautify the historic King Street Building.
The King Street Art Activation project seeks to revitalize buildings in the King Street district with attractive public art displays.
The Bluestein’s Department Store Building will receive the project's first installation, "Mosaic of Life," by artist, filmmaker and photographer Lesya Malskaya, according to a press release by Explore Charleston.
“It’s happening! I’m honored by the support of Explore Charleston to convert empty storefronts into public art installations," Malskaya wrote in a July 9 Facebook post. "The King Street Art Activation Project has opened with Mosaic of Life at the Bluestein Building. Mosaic of Life was born from the paradigm shift that has occurred in our lives over the last year and a half. It explores our shared experience of living within the familiar and the unprecedented, the natural and the unexpected. The work journeys into the iconic natural beauty of the Charleston wetlands, altered and placed within a reality of the unreal."
The project is support by artists local to Charleston including Karl Beckwith Smith, Jason Paul Smith and Jack Alterman.
Born in Kyiv, Ukraine, Malskaya studied Photography in Scientific Research Cinema & Photography Institute (NIKFI) in Moscow.
Malskaya has had more than a dozen solo photography and video exhibitions installed in the U.S. and Europe.
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