About Anna Demovidova
Anna Demovidova was born in Rostov Veliky, Russia, an historic town near Moscow. Anna studied painting and drawing at the Kalinin Art Academy in Moscow, then came to the United States to complete her B.F.A. degree at the University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point. Demovidova has exhibited her work in many group and one-person shows in New York, Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC, where she now lives and works as a professional artist. Demovidova’s work is in national and international collections. She is a recipient of multiple grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, including 2005 Artist Fellowship.
Reviews
“Women: Food for the Eye”
Maxim Glikin, Poet/Writer/Journalist, Editor of “Vedomosti”,
Moscow, Russia
“'Impressions/Expressions' Bears the Fruit of Russian Artist's Vision"
Mike Giuliano, The Howard County Times, April 14, 2005
"Anna Demovidova's sensual and sardonic work is a feast for the eyes and for the mind. Tasty, tantalizing and taut representations of form and figure will scintillate and satiate all of your visual hungers. When art works, it hits you in the stomach..."
“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...”
Curator of Non-Western Art at the Radford University Museum
