Featured Artist: Anna Demovidova
| My Art is figurative, invoked by a memory, an impression, an observation, or a sudden insight into human character and emotions. I am inspired by the beauty I see in a subject: its physical reality, underlying nature, and surroundings. I add my mood and attitude, beliefs and history, making my subjects not only individuals, but also types who embody attitudes and images of my time. I am not looking for a new way of painting, but for my way of seeing. I want each painting to surprise and startle in its expression of human life, and, sometimes, make the viewer smile. |
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| Woman with Molluscs, oil on linen, 36x28, 2003 | Drawstring Boxer with Button-fly Front, oil on canvas, 40x30, 2000 | Sleeping Woman with Fruit, oil on canvas, 28x22, 2003 | Standing Woman with Plates, oil on burlap, 38x30, 2003 | |
"Women and Food" is my newest series. It is about women, and therefore, about beauty. Food (from fruit to bread and fish) represents the external, gives a sense of place and time, while becoming a symbol for lust, fear, dissatisfaction, or purposefulness.
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| Woman with Fruit on the Table, oil on canvas, 30x45, 200 | Portrait with Apple, oil on linen, 32x42, 2001 | Woman Dreaming of Fruit, oil on canvas, 30x40, 2003 | Bathers, oil on linen, 30x46, 2002 | |
"Women with Panties" is a depiction of "modern" women; it is both a negative social commentary and portraits of fun, attractive, and desirable women, looking out from magazine pages, Web, and TV.
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| It’s Impossible to Imagine Colors until You See Them in Person, oil on canvas, 42x34, 2001 | Jason in the Doorway, oil on canvas, 40x30, 2000 | A Woman and Her Breakfast, oil on linen, 44x36, 2002 | Portrait with Geranium, oil on canvas, 36x24, 2001 | |
"Russia is Us" I began four years ago with group portraits against the blue, red, and white of the Russian flag; today it includes many paintings of my whimsical and mysterious friends.
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| Woman with Falling Red Fruit, oil on canvas, 32x40, 2003 | Natasha and I, oil on canvas, 40x38, 2000 | Jason Reading Newspaper, oil on linen, 44x38, 2000 | Reclined Nude on Green, oil on canvas, 20x30, 2001 | |
In "Riddles and Couples" I am portraying interaction between people: how they look at each other, move their hands, touch; what they feel is for the viewer to see. "Washington Portraits" follows Young Emerging Artist Grant I have received from the D. C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. This work is a fusion of interviews and soundscapes with oil paintings; it includes portraits and monologues of Twins Jazz' twin-owners Kelly and Maze; Joe Ruffin, a native Washingtonian artist and self- described "Modern Man"; and several local musicians. This work is shown at the International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC, September 4-October 12, 2002.
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| Federal Jazz Commission, oil on linen, 30x40, 2002 | Jam Session at Twins Lounge, oil on linen, 44x52, 2002 | Jazz at a Market in Baltimore, oil on linen, 40x48, 2002 | Patricia on Yellow with Mirror, oil on canvas, 24x30, 2002 | |
| Jazz has inspired me to create an extended series of drawings and paintings of musicians. Catching and depicting the energy and rhythm of music is both challenging and exciting. | ||||
| Anna Demovidova Biography To see more >> www.annademovidova.com Resume >> www.annademovidova.com/resume Demo-vid-ova – "To See People" - Demo: from the Greek root demo, where it means "people" (democratic, demographic) - Vid: from the Latin root vid of verb videre, where it means "to see" (vision, evident, vie) |
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