Born in 1967 Russia. Graduated from Stroganov Art academy in Moscow in 1992. MA in fine Arts ( murals) Participated in various exhibitions in USA, Russia,Israel, UK. Italy, Netherland. Award in international minitature painting contest om 2007 and as a young painter of the year in Israel in 1996( Israeli Artist union) Paintings were exhibited in such galleries as Ann Loeb Bronfman Gallery,Washington DC, Teatron Gallery in Jerusalem Israel, Frangulian Gallery in Paris, France. My painting was acquired by Warner Music for decoration of their head office, by Jeffrey Sweetbaum, Len Blavatnik.
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Alexandra Slezak began her creative journey in Maryland, USA, studying the traditions of photography and charcoal drawing, but after experiments with art and consciousness, found catharsis in creating mixed-media paintings and found-object sculptures concerned with sustainability.
I began putting color and tone on canvas as a teenager in Chevy Chase, Maryland. I earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, then continued my studies at the Corcoran College of Art and the Winter Palace Studio in Georgetown.
I grew up surrounded by beautiful pieces of art, with four generations of accomplished artists in my family. My first lessons started at age four where I was taught how to draw perspective and horizons from my Grandmother, and I have been painting ever since. I continued my studies through college where I grew and evolved as an artist with a BFA from the University of Maryland. I continue to take many different types of art classes, several times a year. I love to learn about new media, techniques and get new ideas.
Kathleen Wheaton was born in Germany and grew up in Pasadena and Pola Alto, California. She graduated from Stanford University in 1979 and later recieved an MFA from Boston University. She began publishing short stories- in the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine and Sequoia- and then moved to New York, where she worked in the library of the New Yorker. In 1986 she moved to Madrid to write and edit a guidebook to Spain for the publishers of Insight Guide. She then was sent to write on Buenos Aires, Argentina, wher she met NPR Reporter David Welna, whom she later married.
Lauren Cook's artwork is informed by her rural heritage, her appreciation of nature, her curiosity about human cultures both ancient and contemporary, and how these interests converge as the world deals with its own environmental and civil sustainability. Her creative life is also strongly influenced by her work as an art educator and the exchanges of teaching and learning that take place with her students and colleagues. Her art has been exhibited in group and solo shows and through the Art in Embassies program of the U.S. Department of State.
My work has been shown in galleries in Washington DC, Baltimore, New York City, Philadelphia, New Haven, CT, Los Angeles and Chicago, as well as in various online exhibitions.
I taught visual arts at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County for sixteen years.
I was the Art Director at both American Film magazine and Américas magazine (Organization of American States) and have produced graphic design work for the Smithsonian Institution, the Sackler Museum of Asian Art, the United States Information Agency, Amtrak,and Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, among others.