I was born in Ukraine and graduated from law school before discovering, somewhat accidentally, that I could draw.

In 2012 I came across an infographic about the serendipity of being born. It had nothing to do with what I was working on. I couldn't stop looking at it. Within a year I had changed careers entirely — into information design, serving tech and finance clients who needed complex ideas made visible.

Data is the conceptual layer of everything I make. I start with structure because that is how I trust I understand something. But every structure hits a limit. What remains is unstructurable — emotions, contradictions, the fact of being alive. That is where I am left with complexity to observe and behold.

That is where painting entered. What information design does with data, oil and acrylic do with time, intuition, and the limits of human understanding. The questions are the same. The materials are different.

My current work is Black to Move — a 19-piece exhibition feeling for what it means to play and live in a world where the machine has already won the game we invented.

Coming 2027.

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