I'm a Berlin-based artist and muralist. Born in Russia, I moved to the US in my teens and studied illustration at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. That's where I first started painting on walls, and haven’t stopped since. Forging a resistance to time and weather constraints, a healthy disregard of authority, and large-scale eyeballing skills, I learned to make work that is inseparable from its place and its public. My mural work has taken me to walls large and small across Europe and the US.
about my process
Each mural starts with a vision and a pencil sketch, usually more than one. It ends with brushwork- in washes, layers and lines gliding along the textured walls, all hand-painted. In between there are color studies, talks, tweaks, logistics. And afterwards when I’m long gone, the mural takes on a life of its own - a conduit for meaning intended or unintended, a portal someplace or other. It is out of my hands then.