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Olga Volchkova is a Russian-born artist currently resident in Eugene, Oregon.〔(Eugene Weekly: Two Artists at DIVA )〕 Volchkova was born in Tver, Russia, in 1970. There she took degrees in chemistry, music, art, art restoration, and icon painting. The Grabar Institute certified her as a second-degree Oil Painting restorer.〔(The Grabar Institute, Moscow )〕〔(Oil Restoration Portfolio )〕 She worked as a conservator and curator in the Tver Oblast Art Gallery, and joined a journeyman team of important early post-Soviet iconostasis restorers.〔(Olga Volchkova biography )〕 In 1998, she moved to the United States, where she worked as an all-around art restorer in Manhattan. In 1999, she moved to downtown Palo Alto, California, where she found herself in the heart of the first Dotcom boom. She became artistic director for Workspot, a now defunct start-up and contracting house near University Avenue in Palo Alto. There she pioneered the commercial use of scanned watercolors in webpage design, a laborious approach that won her no imitators, but many admirers—Workspot took the 2000 Linux Journal award for best Internet product. 〔(Olga Volchkova's Dotcom Artwork, April 2000 )〕 〔(Linux Today: November 2000 )〕 In 2000 she moved to Eugene, Oregon. She studied ceramics and figure sculpture at the University of Oregon, and her work became a small sensation in Eugene's wood-fired ceramics movement.〔(Woodfired Ceramics )〕〔(The Woodfire Center )〕 She became involved in concluding work in a research project initiated by architect Christopher Alexander.〔(The Gatemaker Project - Rain Magazine: June 2014 )〕 In 2002 she began to study at the world-renowned Pilchuck Glass School, where she discovered cast glass. One of her first pieces was selected as the only cast glass work for Pilchuck's live auction, Passion Afire, of emerging glass artists, held at the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Within a year, Pilchuck also selected her work for their annual live auction, in the company of some of the world's most famous glass artists.〔(Pilchuck Auction 2002 )〕 In 2003, she co-founded a non-profit dance institute, The Tango Center,〔(The Tango Center )〕 and became its art director. She managed the hall's interior design and construction, but also sang Russian Tangos with the house band, and performed Argentine Tango, the dance, with various partners in front of live audiences. She continues to pursue cast glass, painting, public art, photography, and social dance.〔(Register-Guard: March 27, 2004 )〕〔(Register-Guard: June 30, 2009 )〕〔(Register-Guard: September 21, 2014 )〕 In 2013 she appeared on the cover of Crime & the City Solution's album American Twilight. She also played the central figure in music videos released by Mute Records for the album,〔(Mute Records )〕〔(PopMatters: July 1, 2013 )〕 created by Danielle de Picciotto. Her latest major series of paintings, original icons known as 'The Garden Saints',〔(Olga Volchkova - The Garden Saints: 2011 - 2014 )〕 were part of two Art exhibitions in Berlin, and two in Hamburg, in 2012 and 2013.〔(African Paper: Interview mit der Ikonenmalerin Olga Volchkova )〕〔(African Paper: Plants Are My Religion )〕〔(Glass Magazine: My Icon Exhibition )〕〔(Berlin & Out: Il Sacro e il Dissacrante )〕〔(Neonchocolate Berlin )〕〔(ArtiBerlin Magazin )〕〔(Neurotitan Berlin )〕〔(Westwerk Hamburg )〕〔(Taz.de 'Schon Ikonisches' 2013 )〕〔(Taz Wochenende 31 August 2013 p.43 )〕〔(Smena Journal, Tver, Russia: "Invisible" 1.27.2014 )〕 This series will exhibit from 2015 to 2016 at the University of Oregon's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.〔(University of Oregon - Exhibition Calendar )〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Olga Volchkova」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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