Yevgeniy Fiks is a Russian born portrait artist who now lives in New York. What makes his work a little different from other artists is his subject matter, members of the US Communist Party no less.

“My intention is to inform. These paintings portray those who identify as Communists in the present-day United States. It’s about stating facts - and the fact is that there are Communists in the USA circa 2006. How can a post-Soviet subject come to terms with the fact of existence of American Communists today? How can she explain it? Communism is dead in Eastern Europe but Abdul, Sheltrees, Dan and others whom I painted are living, breathing, and thinking New Yorkers of the 2000s. It’s precisely in this context of the proclaimed death of Communism and the end of the Cold War that I focus my attention on American Communists today.”