Olga Starostina
Olga Starostina is a Houston Metal and Mixed Media artist, born in Moscow, who works primarily with recycled aluminum. Starostina studied metalsmithing at the Glassel School of Art under Sandie Zilker. She is currently a full-time studio artist in Houston, TX. Starostina has exhibited throughout the United States Canada and Mexico at the Franz Mayer Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, Indiana University, Kokomo, Indiana, Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, CA, SNAG, Toronto, Canada, Equinox Gallery, San Antonio, TX, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, TX, and the Glassell School of Art, Houston, TX.
Starostina’s work is in a number of private collections throughout Texas.
Starostina’s work is in a number of private collections throughout Texas.
"I employ scrap aluminum such as aluminum cans, gutters, ladders and car parts as source material for my work. I melt and pure aluminum in my backyard using “free casting “ techniques without any preconceived form, letting it solidify freely using a homemade furnace.
The beauty of the surface which emerges when molten aluminum is poured fascinates me. It reminds me of rebirth and soul transformation which inspire me the most.
Over the years I’ve come up with several techniques for cold connecting aluminum. Piercing aluminum parts and stitching them to leather has become my primary process and visual language for expressing my ideas"
-Olga Starostina
The beauty of the surface which emerges when molten aluminum is poured fascinates me. It reminds me of rebirth and soul transformation which inspire me the most.
Over the years I’ve come up with several techniques for cold connecting aluminum. Piercing aluminum parts and stitching them to leather has become my primary process and visual language for expressing my ideas"
-Olga Starostina
