About: Artist Arkady Orekhov

School of Art & Architecture, Polytechnic Institute, Lvov

Arkady Orekhov was born in 1949 in Lvov, Ukraine. He studied music at secondary school and today, in addition to painting, performs in a jazz band which has toured through Europe a number of times.

Orekhov's childhood fascination with railroad trains and trolley cars developed into serious study of their structure and mechanical history, and they appear often in his paintings (A body of his work hangs in the permanent collection of Lvov's History of Railroad Museum.) Another hallmark of Orekhov's work is his close-up, cropped perspective of the city. He offers a casual identification of the sites he paints, yet conversely renders all with precise detail.

Orekhov has had several one-man shows in galleries of European Russia. His work hangs in a permanent public collection at the Lvov History of Railroad Museum. Throughout the Soviet period, Orekhov's work was selected by a number of prominent communist party officials for their personal collections. His sensitive portrayal of Lvov's streets and alleys is accomplished with watercolors.

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