Chase the City Lights
Ekaterina Ermilkina paints the city at its most alive, when rain is falling, umbrellas are moving through the streets, and every light seems to catch on the pavement. Her scenes are busy, colorful, and full of tiny moments that reveal themselves the longer you look. She builds them by layering and scraping back oil paint with a palette knife, allowing hundreds of individual marks to come together as people, buildings, reflections, and sky. The closer you get, the more abstract they become, but from across the room the whole city suddenly appears.
Ekaterina Ermilkina is a Russian-born artist now based in New Jersey. She studied art in Yalta before earning her MFA in Saint Petersburg, where the city’s streets and architecture first pushed her toward painting urban scenes. Since moving to the United States in 2005, her work has appeared in solo and group exhibitions across the country, including shows at The New York Museum of Contemporary Art, The Hunter Museum of American Art, and Artspace Warehouse Los Angeles.
Ekaterina’s cityscapes are built from hundreds of small marks of oil paint, applied and scraped back with a palette knife until streets, skylines, rain, and figures begin to emerge. Crowds become lines of tiny silhouettes, umbrellas flash through muted skies, and city lights break apart into dots of blue, gold, white, and red. From rainy streets to glowing evening scenes, her work turns everyday city moments into something much more vivid and atmospheric.
All Ekaterina Ermilkina artworks are officially licensed and available as premium fine art prints, offered unframed or with the option to add a real wood frame crafted by our artisan framers. Framed prints arrive ready to hang, produced to preserve the original color, detail, texture, and clarity of every artwork.