Biography
Conceived in Ukraine, Alex Nodopaka first exhibited in Russia. Finger-painted in Austria. Studied tongue-in-cheek at the Ecole des Beaux Arts, Casablanca, Morocco. Doodles & writes with crayons on human hides. Full time artist, art instructor, judge, and self-appointed critic with pretensions to writing. Considers his past irrelevant. He seeks now reincarnations with micro acting parts in IFC movies.
PUBLICATIONS: * Peninsula Magazine * Pacific Guest Magazine * Peninsula Guest Magazine * Livermore Times * Pleasanton Times * Dublin Independent * Menlo Park Recorder * California Today San Jose Mercury * Menlo Park Almanac * Painterskey, USA, France, Russia * Numerous Web E-zines
OTHER MEDIA: * Featured on PBS Television 1981 * Featured on Palo Alto Community Television Channel 1998, California * Album Cover rock musical band NETHERWORLD * Guest speaker Brooks Camera San Francisco * Juried Art Judge * Self-appointed Art Critic *
GROUP AND ONE MAN SHOWS: * Art galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, California * Art shows and Festivals, USA * Montalvo Center for the Arts, Saratoga, California * Menlo Park Art Commission, California * Menlo Park Library: Leather Book Bindings * Laguna Beach, California 2002 * Aliso Viejo Library, Book Binding 2003 * Saddleback Art College, 2003 *
PUBLISHED WRITINGS, POETRY, ART in numerous publications
ART PRIZES: Local & National 1st, 2nd & Honorable prizes.
