Upcoming: Annemari Vardanyan
Inside My Mind, March 25 - April 29 Lowell Ryan Projects is pleased to present a solo exhibition titled Inside My Mind by Prague-based artist Annemari Vardanyan. The exhibition will feature eight large-scale un-stretched paintings on canvas stapled directly to the walls of the gallery, as well as two medium-sized stretched canvas works. Originally from Armenia, Vardanyan’s works depict quotidian scenes of life as a student—at home in her bedroom, with groups of fellow classmates hanging out, or simply a wall with windows in her home. These psychological portraits explore the spaces between uncertainty and place, and between alienation and hope. A recent graduate of The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague this will be Vardanyan’s first solo exhibition. Vardanyan’s practice has roots in the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, the ethnic and territorial conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan that has been ongoing since 1988, and which eventually led Vardanyan’s family to flee the region. While Vardanyan was young when her family left Armenia, bringing few worldly possessions and a hope for a better life free of conflict and ethnic persecution, she spent her teenage years not just developing her own sense of self and purpose, but acclimating to a new culture, while attempting with her family to retain vestiges their own ethnic heritage. Vardanyan’s experiences are reflected in works that can appear banal, and almost universal in depictions of young students dressed in clothes influenced by a global culture, the result of years of social media and the spread of the internet. However, her experiences do not go unnoticed as a sense of quietness appears in the works. The artist explains “the title of the exhibition, In My Mind, stems from this idea that behind the curtain of everyday banality, each of us can see a completely different reality.” Studio view: Annemari Vardanyan, Prague, CZ. #annemarivardanyan #artstudio (at Lowell Ryan Projects) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpddkWVPovB/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
