Published: The Seattle Times, July 2008

 

 

 

With his current project, a set of -by-8-foot portraits of the 2008 Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, due out this summer, he hopes to shake up America as well. The portraits, including Hillary Clinton as Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Theresa, " will dredge and unsettle the viewers' and perhaps even the subjects' psyches. Ostroverhy plans to move permanently to Seattle, where his parents live. Among his dream projects here is a series of mountainscapes depicting the Cascardes. One day, he'd also like to paint a fresco on the ceiling of the blue-domed Russian Orthodox Church in the the Cascade neighbourhood of South Lake Union. Born in Lvov, Ukraine, 41 years ago, Ostroverhy had one green eye, one brown, "like David Bowie or Alexander the Great," he says. "My father saw me and said I would either be a warrior or a big painter," Ostroverhy says. "I'm trying to follow both lines, you see?"