Alexander Brashkin

Alexander Brashkin consciously sidestepped the period of schooling and routine training which quite often withers creative imagination: his art finds its beginnings in the street. Having gained acclaim as a street artist, Alexander decided to challenge the strongholds of anatomical drawing and oil painting.

Brashkin’s paintings explore different aspects of the human nature. Apart from the pointedly satirical undercurrent, the artist immerses the viewer in visions of a different reality in which violence, lust, and the cult of pleasure coexist quite effortlessly. The artist’s protagonist is a dreamer drifting in a stream of irrational images and yet controlling what he sees. Alexander Brashkin offers us a visionary experience, revealing amid the garbage heaps of impressions left by fictitious popular culture some authentic and truly powerful sensations, wild and dark in nature.