"My process is accretive and dependent on multiple layers of both color and drawing. Color, a crucial component, creates atmosphere and elicits not only an emotional, but also a physiological response. For me, color is sui generis; it communicates in its own unique language. My drawing and mark making refer to and derive from the natural world, botanical and biological anatomies, including marine life, the structures of both macro and micro cosmologies and writing systems, such as logograms. My sources include collected objects, ephemera, photographic resources, and constellation diagrams, as well as, the direct observation of natural phenomena, including landscape, astronomy, and weather. The specific content is intended to be ambiguous, yet evocative, referencing light and spatial phenomena, a common language of forms, and a shared cross-cultural use of symbols."
Sigrid Burton
Familiarizing oneself with how and why Berberian’s creative output represents his immersion in all of his media of choice - whether acting, writing, music or visual art - is to witness and experience not only a body of work but a body of life. One is reminded of Jackson Pollock’s declarative words: “I don’t paint nature. I am nature.”
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Aspen Ice Garden
233 W Hyman Ave
Aspen, CO 81611
Sigrid Burton is an artist known for her paintings and mixed media works on paper, and, in particular, for her use of color.
Since the mid-1970s, Sigrid’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1977 she received the Richard and Hilda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, given to a young artist of distinction who has not yet had due recognition. Her works are included in numerous public and corporate collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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Glendale Native's Work on Display at Tukenkian Fine Arts by Mark Kellam
Seta Manoukian’s “The North Wind or Composition” (1982) is currently on display as part of “Ten Stories from the Sursock Museum Collection.” Seta’s early drawings reveal a sense of composition, a strong artistic hand, and an original talent. She was teaching at the Lebanese University when the Civil War broke out in 1975. After ten years of war in Lebanon, she fled to Los Angeles, California, where she still lives today as a Buddhist nun.
Join us Sunday, April 7th, 1:00 to 3:00 to hear more about Farzad Kohan's process and his new series, The Story of US.
Tufenkian Fine Arts is honored to present the work of Tony Askew. An opening reception will take place on Friday March 15, 2019 from 7 to 9:30 pm.
Askew received his BA in Fine Art and Sociology from UCSB in 1962, as well as his MA in Printmaking at California State College, LA in 1971. He began teaching art at various high schools in Southern California before he began his 25-year career at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, CA. Askew retired in 2008 after establishing Westmont's printmaking program and founding the Reynolds Gallery, now known as the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. Throughout this time, he exhibited works at a number of galleries, including Delphine Gallery, Cabrillo Arts Center, Montecito Frame & Gallery, and the Print Arts Northwest Gallery in Portland, OR.
Tufenkian Fine Arts is honored to present in the TFA Project Space a new body of work by Farzad Kohan, Stories of US.
"Farzad affirms in the series Stories of US that 'all of US being the same yet different' to be 'a record of our everyday life in a way, making connections, making relationships and how we interact with each other, basically life as a form.' These small groups of borderless paintings, painted on circular wooden panels of two to three different sizes are an inspired attempt to create meaning that furthers his ideas and ideals to engender meaning.
These sublime spheres, perfectly floating before US, in pastels or deeply colored, are marked by a leathery patina; one that seems to have been observed in a distant planet or moon seen from earth, its hues vibrant and monochromatic, all different yet bound by similarities in size and texture, stationed in static caveats."
Excepted from the essay Everyday...In the Absense of Words on the work of Farzad Kohan by Shaheen Merali, 2019.
Joanne Julian, multi-media artist and faculty member at College of the Canyons in Valencia, CA, will discuss her art pratice with art historian, critic and author Betty Ann Brown in the gallery.
Termeh Yeghiazarian is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the intersections of politics, socio-economy, identity and cultural representation. Her recent work is focused on concepts of home and belonging in the aftermath of displacement.
Tufenkian Fine Arts is honored to present: Termeh Yeghiazarian: be.longings.
This exhibition of new works will kick off with an opening reception Thursday, January 10, 2019 from 7:00 - 9:30 pm and will remain open through Thursday January 31, 2019.
Tufenkian Fine Arts is honored to present: Julie Markfield: Awakening & Remembering.
This exhibition of new works will kick off with an opening reception Thursday, January 10, 2019 from 7:00 - 9:30 pm and will remain open through Thursday January 31, 2019.
Tufenkian Fine Arts is honored to present this group show representing the artists we have exhibited over the past year, including Ruben Amiriam, Garo Z. Antreasian, Carlos Beltran, Vahe Berberian, Fatemah Burnes, Sigrid Burton, Andre B. Carter, Sam Grigorian, Hagop Hagopian, Diana Hakopyan, Diane Holland, Hamlet Hovsepian, Gegam Kacherian, Haig Kargayan, Farzad Kohan, Seta Manoukian, Yevgine Martirosyan, Alina Mnatsakanian, Nano Rubio, Arthur Sarkissian, Vachag, Aram Vartanov, Sergio Wilton, Mamigon Yengibarian and Torie Zalben.
“Refractions” presents a new body of work in the dedicated practice of painting for artist Gegam Kacherian. The series is both a continuation of the artist’s interest in subject matter and ruminations on existence and feeling, and a departure, visible in his investigations of media, the painting process and how meaning can be constructed and interpreted.
The new direction for the work had its inception at the Kaus Australis residency in Rotterdam, Holland, organized by curator and artist Carl Berg; an exchange exhibition between Dutch and US artists had also been planned. The James Turrell piece “Celestial Vault” is an earthwork on view in Den Haag, and was a focal point of the 2014 summer residency that Kacherian participated in. Situated near the dunes and edge of the North Sea, the Turrell work became a destination for the residency’s artists that summer.
The Tufenkian Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to announce the Artists’ Walkthrough to close the exhibition “Conversations.”
This show features recent works by artists Nano Rubio, Sergio Witron and Carlos Beltran Arechiga. Included in the exhibition will be new works that delve further into the aesthetics and ideas exploring the contemporary state of painting in Los Angeles and the cultural contributions offered by Latino artists in southern California.
Tufenkian Fine Arts is pleased to announce its representation of Albuquerque-based artist Garo Antreasian.
A distinguished painter and draftsman, Antreasian is also a pioneering lithographer, highly respected and renowned in the printmaking world. His contributions to American art have been well-documented and place him alongside the great innovators of mid-20th-century American art.
