Painter & Art Director

Alexander Panov

His practice bridges static painting and cinema, using Western iconography to examine character, myth, and gaze.

Biography

Alexander Panov is a Los Angeles–based painter and art director whose mixed-media works on canvas and board fuse painting with cinematic techniques, creating "psychological Westerns." His large-scale pieces feature bulls, chiefs, outlaws, and solitary figures as psychologically complex presences—exploring power, vulnerability, and moral ambiguity rather than Western clichés.

Curriculum Vitae

Education Dartmouth College graduate (High Honors in Studio Art, 1996) Background Born in Moscow, he immigrated to the U.S. as a teen on scholarship and received Permanent Residency (~2000) for "extraordinary ability in the arts" from the U.S. Department of Justice. Style & Technique Each painting functions like a paused film frame, with dramatic close-ups, tight cropping, layered and sanded surfaces, drips, stains, and atmospheric effects evoking time, memory, erosion, and implied motion. Figures often appear interrupted or on the edge of action, building tension and intimacy. Film & Television In film and TV (Art Directors Guild member), he contributes scenic art, paintings, and set work to major productions including Barbie, Deadpool & Wolverine, Top Gun: Maverick, The Social Network, Angels & Demons, Cowboys & Aliens, For All Mankind, Fast & Furious 6, Air, and others.

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