Si Golraine’s work is grounded in an ongoing investigation of energy as both a physical and metaphysical phenomenon. This research has led her to develop a process that uses raw electrical voltage as a medium for both sound and color. Electricity, as one of the primary forces underlying natural and technological systems, serves as the main medium in her practice. It functions as a dynamic partner, an intelligence to attune to rather than a tool to control.

Working with electricity involves a balance between intention and unpredictability. The flow of voltage cannot be completely directed, and this variability becomes an essential part of the work. By applying electrical current to titanium, she alters the surface on a molecular level, creating color fields that shift in response to changes in light. Golraine is drawn to this state of perpetual becoming, to art that refuses finality and remains alive.

Her background in classical music and frequency medicine informs the way she thinks about energy, vibration, and resonance. She is interested in creating a direct synesthetic relationship between sound and color, using the same electrical signal to generate both visual and sonic forms. This approach reflects a long-standing fascination with polyphony, where distinct elements exist in relation rather than isolation.

Golraine understands her practice as polyphonic not only in its structure but also in its modes of perception. It provides a framework for examining how visual, sonic, bodily, scientific, metaphysical, and cognitive processes coexist, interact, and influence one another.

Born in Ukraine and based in New York City, Si Golraine is a multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges painting, sound, and live performance through the medium of electricity. Her artistic formation spans a diverse range of disciplines: eleven years of classical music education back in Ukraine majoring in piano, complemented by extensive training in voice and music theory; a year of studies in theater and set design in Texas; and private apprenticeships in painting, decorative finishes, and restoration. 

Golraine is the co-founder of Sestra Kuya, a collaborative project with musician Gerry Gonzales, and the creator of Anophony, a system that translates raw electrical voltage into simultaneous fields of color and sound. Her recent presentations include The Frequency of Color at the Alice Austen House Museum, the two-person exhibition Electromagnetism with Ryan DaWalt at Gloria’s Project Space on the Lower East Side, and a performance with the Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island. She is the recipient of the 2025 First Prize at the Creative Climate Awards and the 2024 DCLA Premier Grant through Staten Island Arts. Golraine’s practice continues to evolve at the threshold of art and science, proposing new ways to experience matter as vibration and perception as energy.