I was born in Russia/Ukraine. I spend my childhood around bohemian artists of Old Arbat. In my teens I became very interested in psychology, particularly the process used by Freud to interpret dreams through drawing. I was also exposed to Symbolism and Surrealism and the work of Salvador Dali. I had found new tools for expressing my feelings and emotions through the "dream-like" quality of surrealist writers and painters such as Italian Giorgio de Chirico, the Russian MarcChagall, the French artist Francis Picabia, poet Paul Eluard, the Spaniard Pablo Picasso, and the American painter and photographer Man Ray. I came to the United States in 1996, and I fell in love with San Francisco. The Hayes Valley neighborhood became my home. Painting for me is not a way of expressing myself but the way of living. I see my work as a constant beginning. Each of my pieces is a relic of an experimental journey of vivid colors, contrast, magic, movement and fantasy. Challenging, provocative, raw, erotic, sensual, powerful, layered, complex, stimulating are all adjectives that apply to my latest series of work. My art works live around the world: in Ukraine, Russia, Belgium, Germany, and Israel.
Elena Bond
Graphic designer, Artist, Teacher
2006 - At present: University of Phoenix; Master's Degree in Education
2000 - Academy of Arts College,San Francisco; Bachelor of Arts
1996 - Pushkin University; Kirovograd, Bachelor of Education
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