Fahrudin Omerovic

Painting has been my lifelong passion. Long before I worked with cameras and screens, I was drawing, and I still think of myself first as a painter.

My work lives between the real and the impossible. I like to paint things so convincingly that they seem to break out of the canvas: a panther stepping off the edge, a bird pulling free of its frame, a strawberry dripping onto the wall. Alongside the realism there’s usually a surreal twist or a bit of humor, and often the cartoons and video games I grew up with.

I studied at the Art Academy of Cincinnati, and I work on original paintings, drawings, and commissions.