Olga Ross
- Costume Designer
- Make-Up Department
OLGA ROSSOKHOVATSKAYA: A Biographic Sketch Artistic Name: Olga Ross
Olga Ross is a multi-faceted artist working in different media and a
variety of genres. She is the director of compound production
photography works and the originator of a new genre of complex
photography being done at the meeting point between interior theater,
style and image mode design, and art history. She is the author of
individualized role imaging, costumes, decoration sets, and art
objects, always leading the creation process from preliminary sketch to
ultimate realization point. She is also the creator of unique authorial
handmade masks. A virtuosic designer with the knowhow required for
integrating paintings into part objects within interior wholes, Ross is
a versatile style and mode artist, as well as a master of professional
makeup art using special effects. What makes works by Olga Ross stand
out is their originality and appeal. Her style is striking, unique, and
always immediately recognizable. A Biography in Brief Born in Moscow in
1971, Olga Ross graduated in 1992 with a specialization in "Fashion
Design and Construction." In 1994, she graduated from ARGUS, a
Soviet-French professional animation school, as a specialist in
producing animated films. Beginning in 1991 and up through the present
time, Ross has been working as a visual image development specialist
for musical clips and advertising film reels. Her work as a style and
image mode designer is not limited to developing costumes or makeup.
The artist creates perfect, complete visual wholes, working through the
minutiae and the finest detail of each image from the inception of the
individual image idea to filming and production, and spanning the gamut
of items from costume to the play of chiaroscuro. In 1998, Ross
developed the conceptual filming framework for catalogues and posters;
she is also the designer of costumes for theater productions and
performances. In Russia, she has worked on a number of feature-length
films, including work as the master makeup artist on The Good and the
Bad (produced by D. Fix, directed by A. Artamonov, 1998) and costume
and coiffure design for Formula Zero (A. Artamonov, 2005) and Armed
Resistance (directed and produced by Ye. Reznikov, 2007). She was also
the makeup artist for the TV series "The Times Are Not for Choosing"
(produced by V. Kharchenko, 2001). In 2000, Ross became a leading
specialist at the "Persona" public image agency; she also served as an
instructor for a study course for show business designers and an image
mode and style designer for the Russian TV channel MUZ-TV. Ross' work
is published regularly in the popular periodicals such as OM, Playboy,
and Official. Since 2007, a new impulse has been manifesting itself in
Ross' creative work: she has now begun to design and produce unique
handmade masks done out of paper-mache. The masks designed by Olga Ross
are used in cinema, in musical and advertising video clips, in fashion
shows, in creative performances. They are also prized art objects in
private collections. Ross' clientele spans the gamut ranging from
private individuals to large companies both domestic and of
international stature. Some of the clients placing their orders with
Ross are Coca-Cola, Ford, Philips, Pepsi, Swatch, Stimorol, M&M's,
Maggi, LG, Solo, «Snezhnaya Koroleva», Phoenix Optical Group, Giotto,
KO-KO GEM Gallery, Ahmad, and MTK ETERNAL. Ross' art has been part of a
variety of exhibits. Among her personal exhibits have been her Works in
Graphics at the Kremlin Palace, as part of the International IT
Development Forum marking the 50th anniversary of the UN (1995), and
her Photographs on Display at ArtPlay Gallery and the Novinsky Arcade
(both in 2006). Ross has also many times taken part in the Moscow
International Festival of Commercial Photographs. Olga Ross is a member
of Russia's Union of Designers. She is the maker of photopaintings kept
in private collections; these works have gone on general public display
in the galleries of Moscow, Los Angeles, London, and Brussels. She is
also the author of the international exhibit project titled "Russia's
Success Stories: A Family Portrait."