Alexander "Sasha" Merman was born in Moscow, Russia on October 24, 1972. Sasha grew up in a communist regime until 1985 when he immigrated to Los Angeles with his mother. After completing school in the Los Angeles area, Sasha joined the United States Navy in 1992. Towards the end of his enlistment Sasha began working on a portfolio with a goal of pursuing an education in visual arts. In 1998 he received a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration from Otis College of Art & Design. Sasha Merman's unorthodox artistic style combines Dali's bizarre surrealism, M.C. Escher's three-dimensional illusions and Giger's eerie erotic imagery with the modern influences of urban Los Angeles culture. The divulgement of his artistic ideas is aided by the use of unconventional surfaces to create an inimitable expression of the artist's stream of consciousness.