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Alla Chekhova is a Russian born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan in 1980. When she was eleven the Soviet Union broke up, and life became more difficult for ethnic Russian citizens of the Central Asian Republics. In 2000, Ms. Chekhova moved to the United States and has lived in Wellfleet since then. She immediately enrolled at the Provincetown International Art Institute, where she studied oil and watercolor painting as well as printmaking, etching and drawing with distinguished artists Jim Peters and Vicky Tomayko. "Her talent is obvious -- her quick insights, her fearless attack on the canvas, her penetration to the core emotion of what she is painting," Peters said about Chekhova. "Her bold compositions capture a beauty which holds the essence of our landscape much in the way that the work of Edward Hopper captured the Cape of fifty years ago." In January 2004, supported by the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Ms. Chekhova was granted a rare visa giving her the status of "Alien of Extraordinary Ability in the Arts." This visa - usually reserved for world-renowned artists - has allowed Chekhova to continue her work as an artist in the United States.
Although oil painting is the primary focus of Ms. Chekhovaís work, it was her watercolors that first caught the attention of the art world. "She has a very mature sense of color and is not afraid of strong values," noted well-known watercolorist Elizabeth Pratt. "Already at this young age she has developed a style of her own that is consistent. This in itself is unusual."
In the beginning of 2001, Gary Gilmartin, a celebrated national watercolor artist and member of the National Watercolor Society, recommended Chekhova to the Harmon Gallery in Wellfleet, noting that she was "an outstanding artist you need to consider." Ms. Chekhova has been showing her watercolors and now oils at the Harmon Gallery since the Spring of 2002. Art collectors throughout the Northeast are now buying Chekhovaís work.
Ms. Chekhova's new series of oil paintings are dramatic, dark, and intuitive, and reflect the intense and conflicting experiences of growing up Russian in Uzbekistan.
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