Identify a Painter

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There’s a small town near either San Diego or Monterey in California that has lots of artist galleries (I’m leaning towards San Diego), which I visited sometime in the early 90’s. There was one artist that I liked, who I am relatively certain had a Russian sounding name, whose art was similar in palette to that of Gil Bruvel (though slightly lighter), but his topics were more realistic and simple. For instance, just a picture of a violin or one of a ship. And he wouldn’t fill the entire canvas with color. Rather there would just be the item he was painting in the middle, and then a slight background which would fade to white.

I think. I was still just a kid, and this was well over a decade ago so…add some amount of fudge factor to all of that.

Sound like anything any of you know?

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Jeff Koons.
j/k, I got nothing (still annoyed that I got beat to the other thread)

I do remember seeing a guy on a television documentary years & years ago who worked kind of like that, but not so much towards white, more towards objects disappearing. He did figurative pieces. I think Chuck Close was in the same documentary (one of those PBS bits on modern artists). That’s the nearest I can offer.