CONTEMPORARY PAINTER, SEATTLE STUDIO
The Works of Milla Petrova
Born in the former Soviet Union, Milla Petrova reinterprets the iconography of her childhood through the lens of contemporary life. Her paintings layer Soviet-era symbols with the imagery of our current systems: surveillance, biology, protest, and technology. The result is work about inheritance, agency, and what we do with the symbols we're given.
Challenge Your Perspective
Frida de Nova fuses classical iconography with modern political and cultural symbolism. Centered on a striking female figure inspired by Frida Kahlo, the work borrows the visual authority of Soviet-era propaganda while subverting its ideology — replacing doctrine with humanity.
Frida de Nova
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Portrait of Power
Icons of 2022 is a conceptual study of cultural longevity versus economic dominance — painted in the historical window when Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, Google, and Tesla held the mantle as the five most valuable corporations on earth.
Icons of 2022
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MILLA PETROVA
About Me
“For me, art is a language. A deliberate act of pausing time to capture life's fleeting beauty.”
Each composition begins with a visceral spark—a coded symbol, a splash, a glance—and grows through the imagination into a world of tension and harmony.
With a delicate yet deliberate hand, I bring fleeting moments to life. Working seamlessly between pencil, watercolor, and acrylic, I blend the technique of meticulous detail with the expressive freedom of contemporary abstraction. My work remains realistic in execution, yet emotional in essence.
Where Power Meets Humanity
How Fragile We Are treats vulnerability as endurance. Blue carries the weight of distance and loss; gold holds what refuses to break. The surface looks weathered but still lets in light, suggesting that identity endures through damage. It is less a tribute than a quiet act of witness — a reminder that strength often arrives disguised as fragility.
How Fragile We Are
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Heritage and Modernity
Grotesk drifts between memory and irony. Drawn in pencil and edged with gold, it reads like a map of thought where pills, words, and small figures float in and out of meaning. Gold fills the breaks and seams, turning damage into design — a quiet portrait of endurance made from fragments that refuse to vanish.
Grotesk
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Between Place and Mind
Summer in Stockholm captures the quiet geometry of the mirrored sauna sculptures at Artipelag. Inspired by Bigert & Bergström’s Solar Egg during its residency there, the painting studies how light, form, and reflection define space — turning a familiar scene into an arrangement of color and texture that suggests calm, structure, and the stillness of a northern summer.
Summer in Stockholm
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