David Pleasing Himself Drawing

Russian artist based in New York. I was born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. At 25 I moved to Moscow and lived there for 12 years until politics turned the country into a Kafkaesque nightmare. My last years in Moscow I couldn't be happy, to be myself or practice painting. I went into a deep creative crisis. I've been back into art when I moved to New York. I have retrieved my inspiration and happily work again, innovating my own method based on mixed media, using acrylics and tempera on cardboard washed multiple times with water. I usually work with color, succeeding the academic school of art and Impressionist tradition. It is the epitome of my art. In my darkest days, I imagined my art as a Power much stronger than myself and I’m still learning to trust it. I strive to avoid any judgment and to silence my internal critic. The color theory is my religion and I rely on it to build a serious relationship with my creative source, with inner me. Something that turns me into a creative state, something that makes me able to create the worlds.