World Inferno Friendship Society

I was commissioned by the punk band World Inferno Friendship Society to paint a banner for their halloween concert at the Warsaw Concert Hall in brooklyn. Derived from the conceptual/lyrical content of the music, the imagery is mimicking the Citizen Kane election scene, with a pumpkin puppet as the politician. Updated the Applied section of the commissioned work website.

Live photo by Konstantin Sergeyev

Another large scale project I had fun with recently was helping Sean Mellyn work on a mural he's creating for Crown Maple Farm. I was doing some painting in the early layers of the initial image, here are a couple of process photos:

Long story short.

Besides my own art I have been busy with a lot of commercial projects in the past year. After graduating I really wanted to support myself using art related jobs.

Though commissioned, I try to have fun with these works, by exploiting my interests outside the primary direction: moments in art history/specific artists/ purely technical, esthetic, or conceptual aspects/various mediums (interior design, publication, film).

I've been working on a separate website, dedicated to serve as a portfolio of my commissioned projects.

There is a whole bunch of stuff, so I'll break it up into separate posts.
Details below...

Woodland

In this project I got to explore interior design, and working with a specific predetermined aesthetic. The Brooklyn restaurant Woodland commissioned me to make images for decorating the environment. The work is themed around forest/trees, and is following an earthly palette of umber, sienna, and ocher, with limited color. I used this as a personal study of some of my favorite tree painters/paintings: Ivan Shishkin, Andrew Wyeth, Alexei Savrasov, Caspar David Friedrich.

This is the painting for the central area of the restaurant:

The following three mural paintings serve as bathroom decoration:

Repino

This is as series of landscapes depicting nature in the area surrounding my country house outside St. Petersburg (thus the name). The formal qualities are primarily influenced by the hallmark of russian landscape painting with a slight alteration of the palette towards cooler notes.

Recollection

This painting arose from a conversation about the limitations of perception and the fragmented nature of memory. I tied the concept to a landscape using photos of a mountain taken by me during a trip a couple of years ago. Absurd idea of consistency within a broken space is implied by the juxtaposition of using straight lines, and repeating patterns on the surface, while still keeping some recognizable visual elements.