Yes,
ok...eh...never liked to write about myself. I
can talk for hours about my friends but never
about my own persona.
Well...I
was born (in Russia, Moscow)... and then were the standard things like
learning to talk, walk,... and draw. Before I
said my name for the first time, I actually drew myself (that's
what my parents told me, and I tend to believe
them).
Soon,
(at six) I decided to go to the Art School but
was too little to attend and my parents decided
to give me a music education instead (piano
instruction). "It " continued for
lo-o-o-ng 7 years and had bright moments from
times to times - a few concerts, "best
student", "best singer of the
year", etc. But the musical future wasn't
the picture I painted for myself. A year before
graduating from the music school, I cut one of my
classes and took an entering exam at the Art
School, and of course got in. Need to say, that
that year I was going to 3 schools at the same
time (regular academic, art, and music schools, which I quit the following year). Ever since
I was a happy child. Probably because I always
knew what I wanted to do.
Then I
moved to US with my family to professionally
pursue my art career. Main reason, it's
impossible to enter a prestigious art college in
Moscow unless you have the connections among
"influential and respectable" people,
which my family didn't. What parents wouldn't do
for their children?! I love them for it.
So here,
in NY I graduated from high school with art and
math (!) majors among top 3 students (!!! out of
1 thousand). I had to brag a little...And ever
since I'm at SVA, School of Visual Arts (one of
the best New York art colleges). I have shows
here and there, won a couple of awards and hope
to "make it" here.
However,
if you think that I am strictly brushes and
pencils person, I'll disappoint you. I've worked
with the computer for as long as I'm here (quite
some time), mainly doing web, graphic, and
layout designs. I was double majoring for the
first year in college (fine arts and computer
design), then I decided I can deal with
computers without majoring in it (besides, it's
costly). I freelance a lot and work part-time
while in college. Last semester worked at IBM
Corporation, as a web developer and a graphic
designer.
In addition to all of the above, I love doing
photography, when I have some free time I spend
it on the roofs in the Village, or...in my
specially equipped studio. And of course I love
museums and galleries which we have plenty of
here.
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