Alexander Sheversky

Striking a harmonic balance between classical composition and modern disposition an original oil painting by Alexander Sheversky speaks to an appreciation for the vocation to contemporary realism. Each canvas is stately and monumental. The interplay of light and shadow and especially Sheversky's inherent understanding of light bring a life to the painting that resonates and lives before the viewer. Whether it is a figurative study or a still life its own existence is captured by the emotive values of light itself that the artist exhibits, thus embodying the living, omnipresent nature of the subject. And so a Sheversky painting espouses a marriage of the meticulous detail of classical technique to that which is clean, modern, and conceptually crisp.

Alexander Sheversky was born in Kishinev, Moldova and started studying art while apprenticing with his father, a professional mural painter. An artist hailing from a family of artists and being raised in the discerning artistic environment of Russia, Alexander was nurtured by an environment highly appreciative of classical realism. As a graduate of the I.E. Repin Academy and as one who exhibited in galleries in Moscow and gained recognition and critical acceptance shortly thereaf...

studies at I.E. Repin Academy of Art

2013 Realism Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada – group exhibition

2012 SF Fine Art Fair, San Francisco, USA

2012 LA Fine Art Show, Los Angeles, USA

2011 Realism Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada – solo exhibition
2010 Odessa Fine Arts Museum, Odessa, Ukraine – retrospective exhibition

2010 National Museum of Fine Arts, Chisinau, Moldova – retrospective exhibition
2009 Realism Fine Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada – solo exhibition
2009 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, Canada - solo exhibition

2008 Kelvin Beaudette Gallery, Vancouver, Canada – solo exhibition

2008 E.S. Lawrence Gallery, Aspen, USA – solo exhibition

2007 Whistler Village Art Gallery, Whistler, Canada – solo exhibition
2005 Artworld of Sherway, Toronto, Canada – group exhibition

1998 124th Annual Open Juried Exhibition of Ontario Society of Artists, Toronto, Canada

1994 Annual Municipal Exhibition, Tel Aviv, Israel

1992 Amalia Arbel Gall...