Wednesday, April 5, 2023

Lowell Ryan Projects exhibits March 25-April 29, 2023, works by Annemari Vardanyan, "Inside My Mind"

Annemari Vardanyan
Inside My Mind
March 25 - April 29, 2023

Installation view: Annemari Vardanyan, Inside My Mind
 
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The paintings in Inside My Mind illustrate the artist coming to terms with her own identity. Vardanyan discusses, "I have always had the strong feeling that a person’s identity should come primarily from their inner individuality, from the realm of the most intimate experience, which gradually has the potential to reveal to us the horizon of broader social, historical, cultural, and political contexts." As time past living in the Czech Republic, Vardanyan realized that her new home would become part of herself, however through her paintings she depicts subtle references to her homeland. Armenian iconography such as carpet patterns that dissolve into the curtains are depicted in the works. The installation of the unstretched canvases themselves is a reference to a mode of hanging carpets, in addition to a means of envisioning a larger work and expanded narrative. For Vardanyan that expanded narrative is not just one of her own life and continued development of self, but also an acknowledgment that while her personal experience has and can still feel isolating, it is in fact human—reflecting that her emotions have been and are felt by many others. Read More...
 

Annemari Vardanyan
A few seconds before happiness, 2022

Acrylic on canvas

87h x 126w inches / 221h x 320w cm
AV-008
 
Installation view: Annemari Vardanyan, Inside My Mind
 
Annemari Vardanyan
A few seconds before happiness (detail), 2022

AV-008
 
Installation view: Annemari Vardanyan, Inside My Mind
 
Annemari Vardanyan
No one will be here until we leave, 2021

Acrylic on canvas
87h x 77 1/2w inches / 221h x 197w cm
AV-007
 
Annemari Vardanyan
No one will be here until we leave (detail), 2021

AV-007
 
Installation view: Annemari Vardanyan, Inside My Mind
 
Annemari Vardanyan
From series I’m here, 2022

Acrylic and ink on canvas

37h x 29 1/2w inches
 / 94h x 75w cm

AV-011
Annemari Vardanyan
From series I’m here, 2022

Acrylic and ink on canvas

29h x 42w inches
 / 74h x 107w cm

AV-012

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