Table of Contents:
Gallery Pages
email me: inspire(at)
anaid.com
About the Artist...
|
|
Photo by Onyx |
Anahid is a San Francisco-based artist of Armenian origin. She lived and exhibited in the famous historic Goodman Building, an artist's community in San Francisco, in the early eighties. She went back to school in the mid-eighties at the San Francisco Art Institute and studied with Carlos Villa and Bruce McGaw among others. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
Her work has been shown and published since 1978. She embraces a style that can be called mystical realism. This is art that comes from the spirit, exploring the dream universe of the soul.
Artist's
Statement:
My work is inspired by nature and tempered by my own experiences. I see artmaking as a yoga, union with the spirit. I work intuitively, from the heart, not from the head. Instead of logically planning out a painting, I let the painting tell me what it wants to be. This way art becomes a process of discovery and self-knowlege: I quiet my mind and listen to the small voice within, and the images flow spontaneously. My love of nature plays a big part in my art. I might make several drawings for a painting, or start by looking at a photo I took while hiking. Sometimes I have a vision of a painting before I start. Other times, I start right on the canvas without any plans and go with the flow, and images present themselves to me as I'm working on the composition. It is fun watching the canvas coming alive and creating itself.
I love vibrant colors and mysterious shapes and use them to express things that words cannot express. I ask the viewer to suspend his/her judgment instead of trying to put the art in a category as we often do: abstract or representational, etc. etc. to just explore with their eyes and feelings and see what the painting evokes in them. Sometimes people see familiar shapes in my paintings that I don't see.
I work in two distinct mediums: painting and mixed media assemblage &emdash;these are mostly made of found objects, boxes filled with an array of images and objects found during my daily life.
Nature is the major inspiration for my work. Other influences include World Mythology and Shamanism, Indian, Persian and Armenian rugs and minitiarue paintings; Van Gogh and Gaugin, the Surrealists, O'Keefe and Modern Art in general. I love modern art as much as I love miniature paintings from South India or the architecture of the monestaries in Armenia.
If you want
more information about my work,
You can email me
at: inspire (at) anahid.com
last updated March, 2009
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|