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Gallery Z announced new exhibit "Armenian Artists from Around the World" PHOTO: Gallery Z
Gallery Z on Federal Hill is set to showcase Armenian artist from around the world as part of their April exhibit “Armenian Artists from Around the World.”
The exhibit will open on Thursday, April 4 and run through Sunday, May 26.
There will be an opening reception on Thursday, April 18 from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
The Exhibit
At the “Armenian Artists from Around the World,” exhibit will feature an “extensive niche collection” of fine artists of over 400 established artists of Armenian origin.
There will be two special events at the gallery this month.
On Thursday, April 11th, 6:30-8 p.m., an author here from Armenia, Dr. Melineh Anumyan, will be presenting her book, Acknowledgement, and Condemnation: The Trials of Young Turks in 1919-1921 and 1926.
Refreshments will follow.
The following week, an opening reception for the exhibit of “Armenian Artists from Around the World” will take place with Gallery Night Providence on Thursday, April 18, 2019, from 5-9PM.
Featured Artists
April's featured artist is Harut Aghajanian, an Armenian artist born in Iran in 1956. He studied at Terlemezian College art school in Yerevan from 1984 to 1987. His highly intricate figurative works on paper are in both black & white and soft wash tones. His paintings have been exhibited in Beirut, Lebanon, and Boston.
Anoush Charlene Bargamian, a.k.a. Sweet Angst, born (1963) and raised in Providence, is an artist/art educator living and working in Chicago. Her abstract paintings and prints employ many mixed media. Her Horses of Honor public art installation was installed in 2014 at the Chicago Police Memorial Foundation, UBS Tower, Chicago, IL.
Harutune Hovhanesian Born in 1922, Harutune taught for 25 years at the Yerevan Teachers’ Training Institute, and states: “A bad teacher represents the truth; a good one teaches how to find it.
George V Kaprielian, born in Providence, “Varki” is a self-taught local photographer who has commemorated notable Providence landmarks in striking close-up angles.
Kevork Mourad, born 1970 in Syria of Armenian origin, is a world-renowned artist who also combines art with music, dance and theatre. He has had solo exhibitions around the world and has works in museums worldwide. He has produced and directed plays and musical-visual projects, has perfected a technique of spontaneous painting to live music, and is a teaching-artist member of Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble. A new visual-musical piece commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, premiered there on November 2, 2018. He lives and works in New York City when not traveling internationally.
Marsha Nouritza Odabashian has exhibited in galleries and museums in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, California and Louisiana and has works is in numerous collections.