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Vera Arutyunyan
 
 
About the Artist

Vera’s works show roughly executed surfaces that combine her dreams as well as her concepts of reality through radiant colors and are left to the viewer to identify with their emotions and interpret artist’s intensions.

Vera Arutyunyan is a graduate of Yerevan State University. Since early childhood, Vera demonstrated artistic talents, however, with her strong technical inclinations and love of outdoors, after graduating from school, Vera decided to become a geologist. While working with a group of geologists in the mountainous Armenia, she did not waste any time capturing the beauty of her surroundings on papers. As Vera stated in one of her conversations with friends, she could not pass the opportunity to take the medium and use its language to communicate her deepest emotional and philosophical perceptions and feelings about the world she lives in and herself to people who, like herself, seek understanding of the wonders of natural creation and being human.

Since her move to United States in the beginning of 1990s, Vera found herself even more captivated by stronger yearning to communicate her emotional state about her being a stranger among strangers, her fears, her struggles to adapt to all that was so new and unknown to her. Painting became the very tool of her inner outcry. Since then, she feels, she’s been possessed by many thousands and more of those moments when all her inner visions and emotions about the world and herself were crying out loud to come out and be heard. Words of the soul that is looking for philosophical and religious answers of what lies deep within human psyche, words of despair in the world in which we strangely at home and yet lost at the same time. Words of powerful love for life, for God and spirituality: emotional words so natural and powerful, that could only be expressed through paintings hoping to be understood, obtain identity and significance, become securely existent.

 
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"Under One's Wing"

2007
90cm x 90cm

"Reincarnation"

2006
Oil on Canvas
120cm x 90cm

"Volorous"

2005
Oil on canvas
100cm x 75cm

 
Education and biography
Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia
Los Angeles City College, Los Angeles, CA
Glendale Community College, Glendale, CA


2007 July - Aug Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 July Gallery Gora, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (Solo)
2007 July 5th International Art Festival Chania, Crete, Greece (Juried)
2007 June Korean Cultural Center, Beijing, China
2007 June ASTO Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Solo )
2007 May National Assembly Library, Seoul, South Korea
2007 May Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
2007 May Amsterdam Whitney Gallery, Chelsea New York, NY (Juried)
2007 May Brown & Scurlock Galleries, Beaumont, TX (Juried)
2007 Apr - May Englewood Arts Center, Englewood, CO (Juried)
2007 April Seojong Center, Seoul, South Korea
2007 April Orlando Gallery, Tarzana, CA (Solo)
2007 March Broadway Gallery, New York, NY (Solo)
2007 March - Apr ASTO Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (Juried)
2007 March – Apr NY Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Feb - March Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC (Juried)
2007 Jan - Feb Color Elefante Gallery, Valencia, Spain
2006 December International Art Festival, Miami Basel, FL
2006 Nov - Dec Pierce College Art Gallery, Woodlands Hills, CA (Juried)
2006 Oct – Nov Valley Institute of Visual Art, Sherman Oaks, CA (Juried)
2006 Oct – Nov Modern Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2006 Sept – Oct 15th Latern of the East Int. Art Festival, JACC Doizaki
Gallery, LA, CA (Juried)
2006 Aug – Sept Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, CA (Juried)
2006 April – May Royal Gallery, Glendale, CA
2006 April – May Don O'Melveny Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006 March – April Masur Museum of Art Monroe, Louisiana (Juried)
2006 March - April International Art Festival Korea, Seoul (Juried)
2006 March Orlando Gallery, Tarzana, CA (Solo)
2006 January USC IGM Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Juried)
2006 Sylvia White Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 MLK Center, Los Angeles, CA
Asto Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Juried)
Harvest Gallery, Glendale, CA
Art & Actualitie International Gallery, Paris, France (Solo)
Valley Institute of Visual Art, Sherman Oaks, CA (Juried)
Gavart Gallery, Paris, France
2004 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Asto Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (Juried)
 
Future shows
2007 December Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy (Juried, Scheduled)
2007 September Five Continents Artists Meeting, Paris, France (Juried, Scheduled)
 
Website:  www.veraarts.com
 
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