Opening Night :: September 3rd Hive Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“ARTIST STATEMENT:
First and foremost, I create because I absolutely love to. There is really no greater joy then creating and bringing an idea to life. Tapping into some sort of minute divine moment when an idea flourishes and then following through until its completion is simply put, ecstasy.
I have artistic ADD. I have trouble staying focused on one type of “art”. I feel I have many areas and ways to create, and I try very hard to make sure I stay open minded and experimental and not conform. That being said, I have many “styles”, all of which are my styles’. I create from my child and adult minds, separately and at times in harmony. I have to appeal to both sides or weird things start to happen.
I seek to create my world of creepy clowns, jesters, baroque oddities, mystical creatures, ethereal beings, and other theatrically bizarre characters all set in a phantasmic, vividly dark, Russian, surreal, cirque world. With my themes I want to bring the viewer into my world through doors and windows of imagination. Whether it be painting, sculpting or collage I want the viewer to be entranced in their fears and ecstasies of a place that is a little off and surreally odd.
In my art I aim to show that just because my work is “dark” or the characters creepy, that that is only the surface, underneath the façade they can also be benevolent and carry their light in a world that can be even creepier and darker than they are.
BIO:
I was born a mad man, I am a self-taught artist.”
“ARTIST STATEMENT:
I take old-fashioned concepts and transform them into an imaginary reality where the odd meets the beautiful, the disturbing collides with with the quiet, and sincerity peace and sexuality all balance each other. My characters are often bizarre but easy to relate to. They all live in a place between our world and another. It is my belief that we, as people do the same: live between the realm that everyone knows and our internal world where oddity, melancholy and imagination reign. The pieces often have a story seeping through them about love, betrayal, searching for acceptance, understanding and wearing your strangeness proudly. I go back and forth between three dimensional work and painting, depending on what medium would describe better the mood and feeling of the character I’m working on. Sculpture gives the viewer the immediacy, the clear understanding of the reality we are accustomed to seeing, while painting allows me to control better the surroundings and background by being more accepting of abstraction and impressionistic simplification. I believe that art is incredibly important for humanity’s collective soul by bringing ideas, imagination and inspiration to us all when the monotony of our daily “Grind” threatens the very core of what makes us human – our curiosity and creativity.
BIO:
I am Bulgarian – Russian – American, and I love mixing my ancestry into my art. I have been educated on the old continent as well as the USA. Currently I live with my partner Brandan Styles , two kids and three doggies in Denver, Colorado, where we organize surreal circus events and do art.”
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