Yevgeny Zubov

27. China Service 21 x 42 inches, oil on canvas

Yevgeny Zubov was born in 1955 in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad). He studied at the prestigious Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg under professor Mulnikov, graduating in 1979.

Zubov became a member of the Artists' Union of Russia in 1981. In 1983 he was offered a teaching position at his alma mater. He has been teaching drawing at the Academy since. In 1985 he won the Lenin Komsomol prize, then a respected award for young painters. Zubov's works have been purchased by Moscow and St. Petersburg museums. Numerous paintings are in private collections in the United States, Japan, France, Germany, Finland, Belgium.

Zubov's work is characterized by confident, masterful drawing. He achieves maximum likeness and expression with minimal means. The backgrounds of his canvases are most often bare and neutral, focusing the attention on the balanced group of objects at the forefront.