Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid


Pioneers of Soviet pop art, Komar and Melamid were expelled from official Soviet artists' associations and subsequently immigrated to the United States in 1978.

JoAnn Wypijewski, editor of Painting By Numbers, is senior editor of The Nation. Her work has appeared there as well as in the Los Angeles Times, Il Manifesto and other publications.

You can read more about this project by visiting the Komar and Melamid pages at the Dia Center for the Arts' web site: http://www.diacenter.org/km/index.html or by visiting the Painting By Numbers page at Amazon.com.