Lena Moross was born in 1955 and spent her fledgling years at the Academy of Art in Leningrad before immigrating to the United States in 1974. Between 1976 and 1979 she studied at CAL Arts in Valencia, California. Moross' graphic work has been displayed at the Heritage Gallery on La Cienega and has been exhibited in art expos in Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco. Since immigrating, Moross' art has passed through many transformations. In her early years, her creativity suffered severely from the confines of the classic tradition. Once released from that tradition, it began to ferment and to be stirred by schools of European art ranging from 17th century British classicism to the work of contemporary painters such as Hockney and Bartlett. Moross began to assimilate this eclectic assortment of styles and then, like an alchemist searching for gold from baser metals, to absorb, to blend, to reflect--and finally to transmute them into her own unique vision.
