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Born in 1982, Aaron Pavelis is a portrait and landscape painter living in Richmond, Virginia, whose work is inspired by the French and Russian classical traditions. A lifelong painter, he began early training in landscape painting with Johnathon Wurderman and professors from Moscow's Surikov Institute of Art, who taught the color theories of Russian Impressionism. He also studied with Albert Epshtym of Virginia Commonwealth University.
Pavelis received a grant from the Melton Foundation of the Arts in 2001, and moved to study at the Florence Academy of Art, which modeled itself on the academic ateliers of the 19th century. When he returned to Virginia in 2007, he painted portrait commissions and displayed work at the Grenning Gallery in New York.
Since 2008, along with private showings, he has exhibited at the Richmond Symphony Designer House, the Lazare Gallery, and worked with Renmark Design on commission projects.
In 2011, Pavelis was a featured artist in Classical Portraiture: Three American Artists Trained in Florence, held at the Art Museum of Los Gatos in California.
Currently Aaron is showing still lives and landscapes at The Shaggy Ram, in Middleburg, Virginia.
Photo by Tony Silvestro
