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THE ALLA ROGERS GALLERY
WASHINGTON AND EASTERN-EUROPEAN ART
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Alla Rogers
Director
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Opening & Reception
6 p.m. to 8 p.m... Aug. 15, 1990
For Further Information:
Alla Rogers at (202) 333-8595
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
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'SASHA' ZHDANOV, SCOURGE OF THE KGB, PAINTS AGAIN IN U.S.A.
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Long before Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev launched perestroika and glasnost, the Russian
painter Aleksandr "Sasha" Zhdanov was locked in a bitter, personal struggle against Kremlin
deception and suppression. He was hounded by the Soviet secret police, his wife was tortured
and he lost his life's work -thirty years of paintings, drawings and sculpture confiscated by
the KGB - but both survived to escape to Washington, D.C And he is painting there, once again.
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At a robust 52, Zhdanov is making his debut as a Washington artist.
His showing, with two other Washington artists, Timothy Raymond and Maggie Siner, opens with a 6 p.m.
reception August 15 and runs through September 15, 1990, at The Alla Rogers Gallery, 1054 31 st Street NW,
in Georgetown's The Piazza in Canal Square. The group show is called, "The Landscape: Points of View."
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The three artists' viewpoints are quite dissimilar. The bearded.. bullnecked
Zhdanov paints the way he looks and lives - muscular and brash, but indomitable and full of hope. His
landscapes provide background for huddled, hulking figures rendered in slashes of thick color, blots and drips.
He acknowledges his debt to Gaugin, Levitan, Pollock, Savrasov, Van Gogh and Vrubel. Timothy Raymond's otherworldly
landscapes, on the other hand, provoke a meditative mood.. only hinting at people in vague, smoothly painted buildings.
ARTnews, struck by his "sensuous and plushy" surf aces, called him "a fantasist capable of refining images that will
best express his brooding vision." Maggie Siner's landscapes, painted in Leesburg, Va., and Aix-en-Provence, France,
have been hailed as "luscious" and "classic" for their spectacular dapplings of texture and color. >>
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The Piazza in Canal Square · 1054 Thirty-First Street NW · Washington, D.C. 20007
Telephone (202) 342-1054 · FAX 1-202-342-0973
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