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Telluride Jazz Festival is full of so many special moments each year and it’s nice to have a framed reminder hanging in your house or office. The vibrant colors, unique style and imagery in Alex Khomsky’s piece will be a conversation starter and look great under glass. His work is richly textured showing a lively music scene on Telluride’s Main Street with cool blue, green and gold vibes coming from the mountains.
Telluride Jazz Festival - 2023 Poster - 18" x 24"
Painting artwork by Alex Khomsky. Graphic design by Telluride Jazz Festival staff.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in Moscow, Russian artist Alexander Khomsky started to paint at an early age, first taking art classes where he painted mostly from nature in watercolor, and later studying under famous art professors in the capital city. He is a graduate of Russia's world-renowned Stroganoff Institute of Decorative and Applied Arts (Moscow) from which he received a MFA. Alex worked as an Interior Designer and Mural Artist for decorative art shops of the Russian Federation Art Fund, continuing to master his technique. He developed an interest in modern contemporary art and was accepted in the prestigious Union of Graphic Artists, an alternative organization which supported new art, as well as vanguard and underground artists, whose work was more difficult to promote during communist-era Russia. Through the Union Alex had the opportunity to show his work in the West at shows sponsored by a variety of art institutions and galleries in Moscow and around Europe. In 1989 his work was included in a very important show of Russian avant-garde artists in Bonn, Germany called Bonn-Moscow: Russian Vanguard Art. The following year he was presented with his first solo show at the Gallery Doll in Kotzting, Germany. Seeking more artistic freedom, Alex moved to the US in the 1990's Alex' s work has been exhibited in over 60 solo and group shows in the US, Canada and Europe, including the Mixed Media Gallery in New York and the InterArt Gallery Reigh in Cologne, Germany.
Khomsky 's artistic world is poetically symbolic, refined and elevated the way positive and resurrecting art should be. His characters portray happiness, mystery and contentment surrounded by magnificent backgrounds completed in the Old Masters techniques of glazing layers upon layers of thin oil paint, achieving the luminiciscent effect of light and color. Influence from great masters inspired Alexander to create his own individualized style and technique of painting. His works are richly textured, using different mediums and introduce splashes of relief in the main structure of painting. Achieving the illustrious handle of language, that only each of his painting could get, whenever he plays each of his character, Khomsky creates the invisible structure that allows us to watch the painting in a complete whole.