WERRING CONTEMPORARY
Alex Kanevsky is a painter whose work moves fluidly between abstraction and figuration, creating layered compositions that evoke motion, memory, and the instability of time. Born in Russia and shaped by the visual traditions of Eastern Europe, Kanevsky later relocated to the United States, where his practice evolved through rigorous study and sustained engagement with American painting.
Kanevsky pursued painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where he would later teach. His paintings resist fixed narratives or singular moments, instead allowing figures and forms to shift, blur, and reassert themselves across the surface. This continual state of transformation invites viewers to experience perception as something fluid and unresolved.
Kanevsky’s work has been widely exhibited and collected, and he continues to live and work in New Hampshire, maintaining a practice that balances formal rigor with expressive freedom.