His oil paintings are also sold as giclée prints which contributed to his popularity and led to the establishment of further galleries in Laguna Beach, California, and Las Vegas, Nevada, Miami, Florida .

In 1987, he began exhibiting with the USSR Union of Artists but earned a living drawing portraits on the streets of Moscow and caricatures for a newspaper.

In 1990, following his first foreign exhibition in Germany with two other Russian artists, he emigrated to the United States, initially living in Los Angeles before moving to Hawaii where he also worked as a mural painter for the Whaler's Village Museum on Maui.

[2] In 2007 Kush sued the pop singer Pink and her record company for copyright infringement when imagery from his painting (and later giclée print), Contes Erotiques,[7] was used without his authorisation for her 2006 video U + Ur Hand.

[15] The artist was greatly influenced by the work of and personal acquaintance with the French ‘magic realist’ Claude Verlinde whose paintings, full of an acute sense of drama in the story of man and his times, often paradoxical in appearance, are, perhaps, closest to his own metaphorical style.