Anne Bobroff-Hajal

Anne Bobroff-Hajal paints family portraits, children's portraits, and informal portraits of men and women of all ages. She specializes in portraits in which the subject's eyes engage the viewer with a warmly expressive gaze. The painted subject seems about to come alive to share childish impishness, middle-aged wisdom, youthful sexuality, old age peace and contentment. Bobroff-Hajal's subjects are not detached, moody, or formal but highly related to their beholders.

Bobroff-Hajal's work has been exhibited in the Bendheim Gallery in Greenwich CT for the month of February (Faces of Winter 2006), and in the Beaux Arts Finale in Westchester, New York in June 2006. She is a member of the Connecticut Society of Portrait Artists, the Blue Door Art Association of Yonkers) and a former board member of ASIFA (Association Internationale du Film D'Animation, the international animation society). She initiated art animation programming at the Jacob Burns Film Center and was the Burns' Animation Program Advisor.

Bobroff-Hajal has traveled widely and lived in Russia for a year. She has studied history as well as the arts at Sarah Lawrence College. She has been painting since childhood and is largely self-taught through endless, highly detailed observations of the world around her: color, shape, visual relationships.

To find out more about her work, visit her website (listed below)
WEBSITE: http://www.annebobroffhajal.com/