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Almaty’s urban fabric is defined by Soviet modernist architecture and the mushrooming luxurious high-rise architecture stemming from the new oil wealth. On the one hand, I can’t help but be concerned with how the Soviet apartment stock is evolving into buildings that the architects would have never imagined. My concern here is to convey how Constructivism, Modernism, Internationalism - the utopian projects of Soviet Communism - worked and failed.
On the other hand, I am fascinated with the new aesthetic and the emerging architectural hierarchy that arises from the birth of class. Much of the Soviet architecture today in Almaty is being destroyed, and augmented beyond recognition. Through a series of paintings
on Soviet-era apartments in Almaty, I seek to re-analyze and re-evaluate the socialist legacy and how buildings change and adapt.

detail from Condenser series

2007
125X79

Graffiti In Decay

1997
spray paint/ink on wood
2m x 1m

Pink Condenser

2006
oil on canvas

A Tribute To Mary Ward

2006
spray paint/ink on canvas
2 meters x 1.5 meters

Condenser

2006
oil on canvas
122x60 cm

Sensuality of Space part 2

2007
oil on canvas
125cmx79cm

Moving Through Time and Space

2007
oil on canvas
125cmx79cm

Doma Hudozhnik

2007
water color on butcher paper
2.5mx75cm

Samal Distric

2008
water color and ink on paper