Dimitri Kozyrev (b. 1967, Russia) regards the current political and military polemic as relative to past Totalitarian and Imperialistic regimes. He therefore associates contemporary events with the climate of suspicion and censorship (and thus instability) that prevailed in his homeland during the last century, especially in relation to art. The series entitled Lost Edge focuses on notions of the avant-garde and both the military and artistic implications of the phrase. A Modernist and Constructivist re-arranging of pictorial space references artistic movements at the turn of the last century and acts as a reflection on the censoring of the avant-garde artists within the increasing totalitarianism of the early Soviet Union. This body of work illustrates Kozyrev's contemplation of this history in an attempt to critique, through association, the current state of affairs in both the military and artistic spheres.

Kozyrev received his MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (CA), and has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Athens and Largo. His work has been exhibited at the Tuscon Museum of Art (AZ), Santa Monica Museum of Art (CA) and the Armory Show (NY), and has been acquired by the Berkus Family Collection (CA). He is the recipient of the Abrams Prize (CA) and Art Omi Residency.

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