Born and raised in the concrete jungle of Moscow city. At age six I was torn out of my native environment and transported to the sweet sun and heat of a foreign land called Florida. Bronze bodies spoke in a strange tongue that I didn’t understand, and I was transported in a van into a humid odd smelling apartment. For a while there would be no cold, no snow, no one that I could understand and these strange golden arches where I would get feed. But eventually I too would adapt.Sorry about the dramatization but often I image my life in a sort of movie like way. Point is I have seen and been through a lot in my few years of existence on this green wonderful planet earth. So it is only natural that my art is an expression of my hopes, dreams, experiences, and anxieties. But you probably may have guessed that since that’s what artists tend to do.In any case it’s really all quite simple. I seek to learn and progress always. I gain inspiration from everything surrounding me. I try to stuff as much music, books, movies, events anything into my little head as I can. Because the more you know the more resources are available to you. I insanely enjoy traveling. If I could travel and live of my art I would be happy, so this is my ultimate mission…and eating and drinking deliciously.I am greatly inspired by my peers. My friends my family and all the amazing artistic and creative minds that I have pleasure to meet and not meet…which I find through the net. I enjoy conversating.What’s going on with contemporary art is amazing there so much talent and that’s more than enough motivation to keep pushing and to reach the tops. Also change is important and good and I have grown to welcome change, change is what makes my work progress. And experiment all you can…never get stuck in one “style” trying new things new subjects ,new materials, directions all this important.I think art should bring forth emotion even if its negative, it should shock, awe, disturb, or make someone cry. That’s important it has to affect you that’s what successful art does. It should also relay the emotion the artist was feeling when they did it.Finally To simply describe myself in a sentence I am: gypsy pasta hippy rasta and I create a different reality from my acidic surrealist dreams that take over unsuspecting canvases and bare surfaces.I also like to save dragonflies from the pool screen, not step on ants and blow bubbles in bad traffic…when im not doodling that is.
And my advice always…if someone tells you your dreams are impossible then dream bigger.
more events coming soon! to a city near you! (new york trip in planning)
