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Artist: Anna Demovidova ( Russian Federation ) -
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Main Category: Painting
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Genres: Realism, Contemporary European Art, Pop Art
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Biography: Anna Demovidova was born in Rostov Veliky, Russia. She studied painting and drawing at the Kalinin Art Academy in Moscow and then came to the United States to complete her B.F.A. degree at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Anna Demovidova has participated in various group exhibitions and has shown her work in numerous solo shows in New York, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC. Her work is represented in national and international collections and she was awarded several grants from the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities, including the 2005 Artist Fellowship. Anna Demovidova’s exceptional work is figurative and realistic but provocative. Anna creates ambiguities by manipulating the figures and the composition. One of her main themes is women and food and their relationship. "Demovidova's paintings are all about the 'unguarded moments' between couples or between groups of people... The viewer is forced at times to take the position of a passive voyeur espying an intimate action. There is something quite unsettling in the way one catches a glimpse of a certain private gesture..." Dr. Halide Salam, Radford University, VA, Curator of Non-Western Art at the Radford University Museum.
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Exhibition History: Selected Solo Exhibitions
2005 Impressions / Expressions”, Howard Community College Art Gallery, Columbia, MD
2003 "Music", Bank of America, Woodley Park, DC
2003 NZen Gallery, DC
2002 Radford University Art Museum, Radford, VA, curated by Halide Salam, Ph.D
Selected Group Exhibitions
2008 EE Fine Art Gallery, Cambridge, UK ‘Newcomers’ exhibition
2007 "Musicians",Gaston Hair Design,NW, Washington, DC
2007 Ten,”“Ten O’clock,” International Visions Gallery, DC
2006 International Visions Gallery, DC
2006 2nd Russian Art Auction, Russian Art Project, Richmond, VA
2006 “Mending Fences,” Gallery 5, Richmond, VA
2006 1st Russian Art Auction, Russian Art Project, DC
2006 Watermark Gallery, Baltimore, MD
2005 Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, NJ
2004 “Jazz at a Market in Baltimore,” New York's Professional Musicians’ Union, Local 802 AFM Brochure
2004 “Women”, MOCA-DC
2004 “Russian Accents”, Gallery International, Baltimore, MD
2004 Reclined Nude on Green,” “The Nude 2004" Juried, Lexington Art League, KY
2004 Women: Food for the Eye,” International Visions Gallery, DC
2004 Museum of Modern ARF, Arlington
2002 ”Washington Portraits,” International Visions Gallery
2001 Invitational "Presidential Art Show,” “Reagan,” Rockville Art Place, curated by Michael Clark
Selected Awards
2005 Artist Fellowship from the DCCAH
Reviews
2005 “‘Impressions/Expressions’ Bears the Fruit of Russian Artist’s Vision” by Mike Giuliano
2005 "Women: Food for the Eye", Maxim Glikin, Poet/Writer/Journalist, Editor of "Vedomosti", Moscow, Russia
2004 The Current, “‘Women’ Features Work by Russian Native”
2002 The Washington Diplomat, “One Show, Two Styles” by Jessica Forres
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