Meet the Artist
Andrei Engelman
Drawing/Painting
Andrei Engelman is a self-taught artist originally from Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia and now living in Portland, where he has participated in various juried festivals in the area. He has exhibited his work in the US, Netherlands, Bulgaria, Poland, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan. He paints in oil or acrylic on stretched canvas. Sometimes for texture he adds some mixed media elements such as foil, paper, yarn or felt.
Andrei began to paint during his early childhood. He does not have any special artistic education, but using his life experience he tries to depict his understanding of the surrounding world. His art is his own investigation of the human spirit in a metaphysical realm