Art & Beyond May/June 2019

art&beyond Vol. 61 • May/June • 2019

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MARKET. PROMOTE. SUCCEED.

Igor Prokop

PARALLEL EVOLUTION OF THE DEVIL THE ANGEL AND THE MERMAID TOWARDS THE FUTURE oil • acrylic • watercolor • mixed media • photography • digital art • sculpture • glass • ceramic • jewelry

H. Allen Benowitz

OLD TOWN. Photography.

Vol. 61 • May/June • 2019

CONTENTS

art&beyond Cover

Back Cover

Inside Front Cover

Igor Prokop

Nipun Manda

H. Allen Benowitz

Inside Back Cover

Point of Interest Art Vancouver 2019 4

Chris Winer

Talia Prilutsky

Igor Prokop

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H. Allen Benowitz

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Laelanie Larach

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Nipun Manda

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Oleg Lobykin

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Kathleen Miles

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Natalya Parris

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Tina Ybarra

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14 16

The Bunker Group

Fine Art • Photography

Kiki 18 Martin Petrosyan 19 Ashot Ashot 20 Armen Rotch 21 Sev 22 Grigori Offenbach 23 Lark 24 Narine Isajanyan 25

Laelanie Larach

Next Stop is the Art Santa Fe 2019 Apply Now to be Published in the Summer Print Edition Magazine Deadline May 27, 2019 https://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/magazine-entry/ Publisher Art Director Editor

Mila Ryk Mila Ryk Alina Lampert

Art & Beyond published 8 times a year.

Six (6) Online issues and Two (2) printed issues.

Distributed to the galleries, museumes and other

Entry Form to apply to be published in the Art & Beyond Online magazine is available at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/ab-online-entry/ Membership Program application is available at http://www.artandbeyondpublications.com/membership/ For any additional information please contact Mila Ryk at mryk@art-beyond.com

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point of interest

OPENING NIGHT. Art Vancouver 2019. Liz Chen

The Memorable Moments from the Art Vancouver 2019 with Art & Beyond Magazine

TERRY KRUSE. Art Vancouver 2019

OPENING NIGHT CROWD. Art Vancouver 2019.

Photographer Pablo Lopez-Galiacho Jara

you are born to create "YouIf work very hard.

If you work very hard You have to share it!

If you have to share it This is the place where all the Magic happens!

"

– Mila Ryk, publisher 4 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

SCULPTURES BY STEPHAN ROGAN MOSER. Art Vancouver 2019.

Photographer Pablo Lopez-Galiacho Jara

ELIZABETH CROSS. Art Vancouver 2019

JOY PEIRSON. Art Vancouver 2019

JODIE BLANEY. Art Vancouver 2019

MICHELLE FEDOSOFF. Art Vancouver 2019

JENNA JONES. Art Vancouver 2019.

Photographer Pablo Lopez-Galiacho Jara

TALIN WAYRYNEN. Art Vancouver 2019.

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Igor Prokop

TRAVEL IN AN ALIEN'S BRAIN TISSUES. Acryl on Canvas, 115cm x 95cm. 2018

IGOR PROKOP was born in Budapest in 1953. He graduated from the Teacher Training College in Eger as a teacher of Biology and drawing in 1978. Igor studied Biology at József Attila University and Arts between 1981 and 1983 in Szeged, then philosophy in 1984 in Budapest. He also studied film aesthetics in 1987 and between 1991 and 1993 he studied design at the University of Applied Arts.

Igor Prokop studied and worked in New York, Heidelberg, Auckland and several other places around the world.

Everything is connected - nothing is meaningless. It does matter how you live, what you create, if you are going to have children, and what you are going to leave to them and their children as well. It does matter how much enlightenment you achieve! Every one of us has his own inner world made out of experience and personal learning within the system.

“I want to preserve the past and to design the future. I want

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to protect the universal systems and I would like to protect the teachings of those that have thought me everything: The Organon by Aristoteles; Holbach, On the Road by Kerouac; Jack London, Arnold Gehlen, Stephen Hawking and several other teachers from art, music, history and even from the internet. They all became guides on my way.” – Igor Prokop.

“Our world permits no further mistakes. United mankind can solve its problems. We must work together! This is my final goal, the inspiration for my pictures: To create tolerant, creative and cooperative systems that are heading toward a spiritual unity. Everyone must learn and teach at his realm, everyone must learn to work together with the power of art.

For it is only possible to compare the power of art to that of nature herself” stated Igor Prokop. https://www.saatchiart.com/account/profile/98903

H. Allen Benowitz

A MOMENT ON THE HIGHLINE. I was inspired the moment I picked up my first Minox camera as a young boy. After over four decades of success in the court reporting and video world, I returned to my passion to create a number of award-winning photographs. Growing up in Brooklyn at the Pride of Judea Children’s Home, someone gave me a Minox spy camera. I took candid photos of kids in dorms through unhinged door cracks, sometimes producing very humorous results. Invited into their darkroom, I began experimenting with black and white film. While the sparks of my passion for photography were ignited, it would be decades before I would circle back to light the fire. As a young man, I attended Interboro Institute of Business in Manhattan.

Ultimately successful, my two companies were acquired nationally by Veritext Litigation Services, where I served as VP-Florida.

nationally, have had my work featured in museums and galleries, and traveled the world to photograph landscapes, wildlife, people, architecture and adventure. I only take a picture when there is passion behind the shutter. My signature style can be recognized by its depth and texture and ability to draw the viewer into the picture, bringing still images to life.

I honed my photography through video conferencing and legal videography. Having my first exhibition in 2003 in Coconut Grove, over 175 people attended. I was very encouraged by the 24 sales.

I am gratified when people enjoy my work. If my photographs evoke a connection or emotion, I have succeeded in sharing my work with others.

My collections have had shown at more than fifty exhibitions

A sample of my style is illuminated in my work “Cigar Lady,” taken in Old Havana, Cuba, as she inhales on what looks like a foot-long cigar. The photograph received seven awards and was displayed at a private reception at Musee de Louvre in Paris. One of my most treasured assignments was when King Mohammed VI of Morocco invited me to photograph his country’s annual festival, Moussem de Tan-Tan. It was an honor gifting my work to the King. I am humbly pleased by the awards and honors I have received, numbering over 40.

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Laelanie Larach

THE COLD KISS. Oil on Canvas, 36" x 36" x 1.5 "

LAELANIE LARACH was born in Honduras, a beautiful country in Central America with coasts on the Caribbean to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. The country has three major and dramatic large regions. To the east are the tropical Caribbean lands with jungles, lagoons, mountains, sandy beaches and islands of the Mosquito Coast. Also in the center of the country is a large interior hill the Sierra Madre Mountains, crossed by a number of rivers, each with its own beauty and character.

It was this beautiful combination of mountains, tropical forests, and sandy beaches that inspired at a young age to begin experimenting with her artistic expression. In her earliest work she used pastels, watercolors, and charcoal after winning some 8 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

small art contests in school, she was inspired to expand her work into the medium of oil on canvas. This resulted in her amazing masterpiece in oil, the painting called, “Mysterious Forest.”

Each one of her paintings is unique with a signature in her work of vibrant colors and concepts. Throughout her body of work one can see themes drawn from her early experiences in Honduras, including aspects of her inner thoughts and emotions. She has said that she feels truly alive and in harmony with nature when she is painting also her work spans various schools of art, from the abstract to detailed realism. https://laelanieart.com

Nipun Manda

ILLUMINATION.

My work is a contemporary statement through the perception on Inner and outer space juxtaposing with time and space of life experiences. I incorporate visual, emotional and psychological impressions of urban tension, raw emotions and harsh realities tempered with gentle optimism and beauty seeking t h e combination of objective and non-objective serves a s matrix between nature and mankind. celebrating the transformation of surface, the spontaneous act of aesthetics and artistic expression become living imagery in a joy of color and above all the creative energy of life.

By creating art for me the most satisfying way of working is the combination of the abstract and the figure. The freedom of abstraction and the emotions that the figure can carry with t h e symbolic potential of the objective world and t h e possibilities abstraction presents in suggesting the unknown.

My paintings operate somewhere between abstraction and the cognitive world, between the known and the unknown.

My goal is to leave a cognitive space for viewers to fill in. I want my work to provide a chance to see things from different perspectives with the dimensions of the pieces viewers to become conscious of their physical relationship to the objects and scale proportion and humanity to elicit an emotional and intellectual response in my viewers.

Art has always been an important part of my life. BFA and MFA Post graduated continued practice as Visual artist and educator. I live and work in Maryland, USA. with lifelong artistic career in various areas and influences that run deep, travelled internationally, has been represented by various Galleries and has successfully held extensive exhibitions nationally and internationally.

Painting is a wondrous journey for me. nipun07@gmail.com • 301-552-3702

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Oleg Lobykin

TALKING HEADS. Mixed Media on Cardboard, 9.8" x 6.9"

While I’m a classically trained master stone carver, as an artist and sculptor I work in a variety of materials. I express my conceptually driven ideas in novel sculptural form, experimenting with texture, materials, color, or interactive elements.

Observing the natural world and mystery of transformation inspires me. I’m fascinated by a harmony of contradictions between chaos and order, darkness and light, bad and good.

I explore how they’re interconnected, how they can stay in balance, and how the meaning of thought or beauty can take shape in physical form.

My art is a search for the roots where and how form is born, gets a soul, and begins life on its own. The combination of space and lines varying in size, angles, directions and 10 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

complexity creates the form (Space + Line = Form). I look beyond the bounds of time toward what is unchanged from the Stone Age to the digital era, using whatever methods and materials can best bring my vision to life.

I am a creator, an action-oriented man who is excited to make new things. For me, art is as natural and necessary as breathing or eating. It gives my life purpose. My artwork indulges my curiosity about the world and allows me to communicate and engage with others. Art is my contribution to society.

Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, I am now a resident of Silicon Valley. As an international man and product of globalization, I live and work in the shrinking space between traditions of the past and uncertainty of the emerging future. www.Lobykin.com

Kathleen Miles

WAVEFORMS. Digital Painting, 32" x 40"

KATHLEEN MILES’ digital art consists of bold and colorful abstracts. The compositions are built with geometric elements, as well as painterly details and textures that are revealed when viewed at close range. Patterns, shapes and forms are repeated, but the iterations vary. Energy, movement and rhythm are strong components of the work, pulsing directionally to move the viewer through the painting.

Color is a vital element. The duality of experience: emotions, spirituality and the lens of the psyche, on the one hand, and the physical, tangible, sensate world on the other, inspire the dynamics of her art.

Her work has been selected to be a part of many juried invitational exhibits, and has received awards, including: Current: 2018-2019 American Art Awards, received 3rd Place award in Digital Art Non-Representational Category, Juried by 25 of America’s Best Museums and Galleries. September 2018 – September 2019.

Recent Invitational and Juried Exhibitions: 2019 All Photography/Digital Exhibition, Contemporary Art Gallery Online, awarded 1st Place for digital painting “Flow,” January 2-29, 2019.

Dutchess County Art Association/Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, Pushing Paper, Works on Paper, August 11-September 22, 2018, Juror: Paul Wong Light Space & Time Art Gallery, October 2018 “Patterns” Exhibition, received a Special Merit Award for Digital Art work, “Deep Trance” Juror John R. Math Light Space & Time Art Gallery, September 2018 “Open” Exhibition, received a Special Recognition Award for Digital Art work, “Lightness” Juror John R. Math 61st Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Fowler-Kellogg Art Center Gallery, Chautauqua, NY, June 24July 17, 2018, Juror: Sharon Louden First Street Gallery, New York, NY, 2018 National Juried Exhibition, June 21-July 14, 2018, Juror: Ronnie Landfield The Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster, NJ, 2017 International Juried Exhibition, November 17 – December 23, 2017, Juror: Stephen Westfall Bauhaus Prairie, October 2016 National Juried Exhibition, “Light and Color” kathleenvmiles@gmail.com

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Natalya B. Parris

CHERRY BLOSSOM IN WASHINGTON, D.C.. Acrylic on Canvas, 12" x 12"

NATALYA B. PARRIS is a strong believer in contributing to the community by promoting art awareness and education.

This is why she likes to display her artworks at the agricultural fairs, community centers, and public libraries. By visiting those places, children from a very young age have an opportunity to see diverse art media and learn that the world is very colorful with many unique ways to express yourself such as writing books or creating an artwork.

Ms. Parris created a unique artistic style - “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint – Dots” where perfectly round dots are overlaid onto sections of a previously painted picture. To express very powerful emotions, she piles the dots on one another and the dots, like music notes, interact with the rhythm of the melody - creating emotional counterpoints in a three-dimensional painting. Her dots connect her past as a civil engineer, when she was doing many engineering drawings by hand (it was the time when she learned to paint such perfect dots) and the present time, when she uses those dots to create her “Emotional Counterpoints in Paint “– dots artworks. Artwork Cherry Blossom in Washington, D.C. won 2nd Place at the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair 2018 in Gaithersburg, MD.

Ms. Parris teaches art classes for children and adults at the Arts Barn, Gaithersburg, MD and at the BlackRock Center for the Arts in Germantown, MD. Through the art she explains her students that there is a place for every individual to express their inner world; there are as many options as there are souls.

Ms. Parris hopes her artworks encourage each adult to look at the world around them as they did when they were children; You can see more of her artworks on Facebook page Natalya to be very open-minded and curious about new things.

B Parris. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Natalya-B-Parris/111488538880248 LinkedIn www.linkedin.com/pub/natalya-parris/18/a1b/820/ Artavita https://artavita.com/artists/8737-natalya-b-parris 12 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

Tina Ybarra

GOOD FENCES. Oil on Canvas, 16" x 20"

TINA YBARRA lives a mixed media life. Born in the urban city of Lynwood, CA, Ybarra attended Cal State Univ., Long Beach off and on (mostly off) for several years, eventually earning a degree in General Art. Currently residing in South Gate, CA, Ybarra is a veteran elementary school teacher, a reluctantly-retired softball junkie, a former high school coach (softball, basketball, and volleyball), and a weekend/sparetime/summer-break artist.

Raised on Motown and Santana, Ybarra is just as likely to glean inspiration from Hip Hop, Rock (all genres), or Mozart.

She is mesmerized by TV, fascinated by movies, fanatical about books, and enchanted with theatre.

For the most part, Ybarra’s work deals with issues that are personally relevant such as the hypocrisy of religions, the brutal realities of inner-city education, the relentless despair of poverty, and the inequalities of gender and race.

In Ybarra’s current work, there is a tendency towards mixed media and an attempt to bring dimension by cutting into and/or attaching objects to the canvas. Still, on occasion, Ybarra will return to basics; to something straightforward and traditional; to something as comfortable and familiar as the velveteen texture of charcoal on paper. https://tybarra23.wixsite.com/tinaybarra-artsite

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Chris Winer

JACK. Oil on Board, 9" x 11"

My works whether figurative or landscape endeavour to capture the emotional life of the subject, not only the physicality, through the use of vibrant, luminous colour and strong brush work, transcending the persona or image presented to the outside world.

These recent paintings include a self-portrait that has evolved over the last 20 years 'Three Phase' has 3 self-portraits from 14 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

what i looked like in 1999 when the first painting appeared; I was passionate, naĂŻve, seeing the world in colour, my hands strong ready to grasp the moment.

Then flanked by the moment in 2016 I suffered a stroke; the maelstrom, chaos, life becomes black and white, your senses wrenched from your command, the reaper knocking; the failure/capacity to respond, just shudder, twitch, flop, and fit.

GHOSTS BY NIGHT III. Oil on Canvas, 28" x 40"

Now, wiser, full of life. Tattoos representing loved ones, influences, moments, passions, and stages from the landscape of life.

Born in the year of the snake, my first encounter, a diamond python rising up and staring me in the eye as my mother walked me home from kindergarten.

The serpent has always impacted on my life, literally and metaphorically and has appeared in my works from the day I picked up a brush.

THREE PHASE. Oil on Canvas, 110" x 280"

century's of farmers never leaving their land.

Two are a fountain at night, etherial rider slaying the serpent, life and death through the salvation of cascading aqua vita.

Unbreakable Bonds; a man I've never meet; his psychological scars from war never ceased. Now deceased. Painted with his sister, my friend who evoked his life into the tangible.

Memories run, blur and fade, time drips. Nostalgia with silver and gold. www.Paintedland.deviantart.com

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Talia Prilutsky

Founder and Head of Artishock Studio

SCARLET SAILS.

ART STUDIO ARTISHOCK (Wheeling, IL) is a place where everyone who loves art in all its manifestations seeks to get. Painting and drawing lessons, visits to the plain air, visits to galleries and museums, lessons in the history of art as well as classes in arts and crafts and the lessons of the so-called therapeutic art -this is an incomplete list of services provided in the Studio. Private Art Studio Artishock is engaged in teaching of children and adults of all ages, regardless of experience and training. Talia Prilutsky (BFA, MA) is a professional artist and teacher, founder and head of Artichoke Studio since 2007, constantly finds new ways in which students ' talent can be fully revealed. Each year, students of Art Studio Artishock are participate in various art competitions, which give participants the opportunity not only to show their most innovative works but also to gain valuable experience of the competition which will allow all participants and winners to get acquainted with the works of other artists and choose 16 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

their creative style. This 2019 Art Studio Artishock takes part in the contest "THE IDEA: The Chronicles of Narnia”" which is timed to the end of the school year 2018-19 and is supported by the publication of publisher of "Art and Beyond" magazine.

The aim of the competition is to support young artists, reveal talents among young people of the local community and strengthen the desire to engage in the art of painting and drawing.

The selection Committee headed by the publisher Mila Ryk will select 3 (three) works that the Commission believes will meet the selection criteria: a bright disclosure of a given topic with the help of individual creative ideas by the use of mastered drawing and painting skills. The winners will be awarded prizes and will have the opportunity to be published in the next issue of the magazine “Art and Beyond”.

ART COMPETITION

“THE IDEA” Congratulations to Art & Beyond Competition Winners

Art & Beyond Magazine is proud to announce the winners of the Competition awarded to be published in the magazine and wishing all participants to continue develop their drawing and painting skills and be a part of the amazing world named ART with joy and happiness. Keep your fantasy and imagination growing with you and use love of colors to express your vision.

The winners are: Clare Prilutsky, 14 Sofia Ferrell, 12 Nicole Dobrovolsky, 10

Congratulations!

Clare Prilutsky, 14

Sofia Ferrell, 12

Nicole Dobrovolsky, 10

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The Bunker Group

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Kiki

BOBO. Mixed Media on Canvas.

Leader of the International Bunker Art Group, Kiki is constantly mastering his abstract expressionist techniques.

His art works are on display in state museums in Germany, Armenia, Estonia, and Kazakhstan and constitute an important part of the Nancy and Norton Dodge collection of the Zimmerly Art Museum in New Jersey.

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UNTITLED. Acrylic on Canvas

MARTIN PETROSYAN was born in Armenia in 1855. He studied drawing and painting at the Kh. Abovian Pedagogical Institute. In 1982 he started working at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Martin participated in art exhibitions even as a student. From 1987 his work have been exhibited in Union of Soviet Republics shows on a regular basis. His works are on the permanent display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Yerevan, as well as in private collections in Armenia, the former Soviet Union, France, Canada, United States, Germany and Syria. Since 1999, Petrosyan has resided in Los Angeles. For more information please contact LarkGallery.

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The Bunker Group

Martin Petrosyan

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Ashot Ashot

AFACTUM 2, Acrylic on Canvas,1995.

ASHOT ASHOT was born in Armenia in 1961. Ashot left Armenia shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1993 and moved to France. With HIS discovery of the Vedic philosophy Achot Ashot began his mature period where all the works are titled AFACTUM - A word created by the artist from factum for event, and his own private prefix. For more information please contact LarkGallery.

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UNTITLED. Pencil on Paper, 2017

ARMÉN ROTCH first began to exhibit his work in Armenia in 1978 under the name of Armén Hadjian, with the “Carré noir” Group, and continued to exhibit into the 1980s with the avant-gardists of the “3ème étage”, of which he was one of the founders, taking part in the “First Gathering of USSR Avant-gardists” in 1987. At this point, he began to show his work beyond Armenia: in Narva, Estonia in 1988; in Paris in 1989; in Copenhagen in 1990; and in Moscow, Vienna, and New York in 1991. He has lived and worked in Paris since 1993. For more information please contact LarkGallery.

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The Bunker Group

Armen Rotch

The Bunker Group

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Sev

UNTITLED. Plastic on Wooden Board .

Born in Armenia 1954, Sev started his career as a writer until he met a group of underground artists and joined their ranks. As a member of the 3rd Floor art group and later as a member of the international art group BUNKER, Sev took part in MORE THAN 100 exhibitions and creative actions in Armenia, Russia, Lithuania, Estonia, France, and Germany from 1987 to 1999. His works are part of the permanent collections of the Narva City Museum in Estonia; 22 • Art & Beyond • May/June 2019

Panevezhiss City Museum in Lithuania, and Museum of Contemporary Art of Madeline, Colombia and private collections in Armenia, Russia, Germany, France, Italy, USA, Canada, Australia, Netherlands and Sweden. Sev now lives and works in Los Angeles.

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UNTITLED. Ink, Acrylic, Tempera on Paper.

GRIGORI OFFENBACH is a Member of the Bunker Group. For more information please contact LarkGallery.

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Grigori Offenbach

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LARK

R.R.R. Mixed Media, Collage with Found Objects on Board.

Born in the remote mountains of central Asia, LARK (Larisa Pilinsky) grew up in Ukraine and studied art in Russia. She first became known for her work with the award-winning Bunker Art Group of Armenia —“fellow rebels in abstraction” against Soviet artistic repression.

Since emigrating to the United States in 1991, Lark has been recognized by respected critics and dealers. Her assemblages and, more recently, her paintings, have been featured in more than 30 solo and group shows including the Nickelodeon Animation Studios, the Avatar Art Gallery, the Swedish-American Museum of Art, and the Museums of Contemporary Art in Armenia and Russia. Lark’s work has been selected through juried competitions by the SoHo International Art Competition and the Foundation of Collage Artists of America.

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Lark creates assemblages by recycling found objects and processing them through spiritual meditation, encouraging images to appear out of her subconscious, awakening both familiar and unfamiliar thoughts in viewers. Learning about her materials by exploring both their formal and their narrative qualities, she simultaneously reformulates them according to her deeply emotional, poetically romantic sense of beauty.

Their original functions discarded, their origins long forgotten, the objects she engages and interacts with are free to play imagined roles, resonating within one another and telling countless tales.

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THE STARKNESS OF DREAMS. Ink on Paper.

NARINE ISAJANYAN was born in Armenian and began drawing and painting at the age of five. During her childhood she visited many museums and galleries in Armenian and St. Petersburg, as well as receiving training in music and dance.

In college she continued her training in art and received a Bachelors degree in 1987 from the College of Architecture in Yerevan.

She moved to Moscow to study at the Moscow Architectural Institute but found Soviet regulations on architecture too restrictive and sought more freedom to express her ideas through her art. She returned to Armenia and studied art

with Manuel Bagdasaryan and Samuel Bagdasaryan and later received a Masters degree in Fine Arts from the Yerevan University of Art and Theater. She first started exhibiting her art in 1990 in Armenia and has participated in numerous shows in Moscow, Beirut, Abu Dhabi, Croatia and Belgium.

About her art, Narine says, "When I paint, I feel like I am flying and dancing; I hear music in my mind. Through my art I want to express the freedom I feel in my soul."

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The Bunker Group

Narine Isajanyan

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Laelanie Larach

THE HAMSA HAND. Oil on Canvas, 24" x 36".

Nipun Manda

WINGS OF HOPE.