Estelle Raskin was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan and immigrated to the United States in 1989, landing in Cleveland, OH. After graduating from The Ohio State University, Estelle spent time traveling and living between coasts until landing in California. She lived in California for over fifteen years and still considers it home. Recently back to Cleveland, Estelle continues to be deeply influenced by California's otherworldly, wild ecosystems. Her current works wrestle with the tensions between Cleveland’s city scapes and California’s eruptive wildlife, mirroring the uncertainties, constraints and predicaments of home, identity, justice, belonging, creativity, and a yearning for magic. Estelle’s sprawling paintings and drawings explore color, form, negative space, repetition, and movement, dancing between spontaneity/improvisation and predictability/formula.