Ani Qananyan

Ani Qananyan was born in 1990, in Georgia. She studied at Yerevan State College of Fine Arts after P. Terlemezyan between 2005 and 2010. She graduated from Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2016. Since 2013 she has been working as a mural restorer at Frescoes Scientific Research Art Center in Yerevan, Armenia. The artist mainly produces works in ceramics and painting.

 

Since 2008 Ani Qananyan have participated many groups and she opened her first solo exhibition at Narekatsi Gallery in Yerevan in 2012. Other personal exhibitions were held at the Albert and Tove Boyajian Gallery in 2013 and at the Gevorg Grigorian (Giotto) Studio-Museum in 2016.

 

Ani Qananyan is a clay artist, painter, mural restorer and co-founder of the Shushan Gallery in Yerevan. Inspired mainly by the nature in which we live, the artist creates peaceful compositions by skillfully combining fluctuations imitating nature, regular-irregular repetitive geometries and contrasts caused by the different textures she creates in her ceramic works, which she makes out of white clay. On the other hand, we encounter a very different landscape in Qananyan's mixed media paintings she produces by using different materials besides oil painting, such as gouache, sandpaper and sometimes gauze. These works of the artist, who claims to depict nature and her surrounding environment as she sees it, carry traces of a wide spectrum ranging from archaic painting to impressionism and modern abstract art.