Alexander Panov is a Los Angeles–based painter and art director whose mixed-media works on canvas and board fuse painting with cinematic techniques, creating “psychological Westerns.” His large-scale pieces feature bulls, chiefs, outlaws, and solitary figures as psychologically complex presences—exploring power, vulnerability, and moral ambiguity rather than Western clichés.

A Dartmouth College graduate (High Honors in Studio Art, 1996), he moved to California in 1997 and has spent over two decades refining his style: each painting functions like a paused film frame, with dramatic close-ups, tight cropping, layered and sanded surfaces, drips, stains, and atmospheric effects evoking time, memory, erosion, and implied motion. Figures often appear interrupted or on the edge of action, building tension and intimacy.

In film and TV (Art Directors Guild member), he contributes scenic art, paintings, and set work to major productions including Barbie, Deadpool & Wolverine, Top Gun: Maverick, The Social Network, Angels & Demons, Cowboys & Aliens, For All Mankind, Fast & Furious 6, Air, and others.