Biography
Alexander Ovchinnikov.
Painter and renowned graphic designer. Born in 1960, lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
A graduate of the Moscow Academic Art School, member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation and the International Union of Journalists.
Started as a graphic artist and painter (oil, acrylic, mixed media authoring). The first exhibition was held in 1986 in the famous dissident exhibition hall at the Little Georgian Street in Moscow (in Soviet times it was one of the few places where one could see non-formal art).
One of the first in Russia, in mid-1990 began to study digital art, experimenting with form and technology. Most recent works are a mixture of digital image processing and traditional techniques. Stylistically, gravitates toward abstract expressionism. Artworks have been exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad (Denmark, Germany, Italy, etc.). Many of them are in private collections in Russia, Denmark, Germany, France and Israel.
