Open Studios 2015 

Goodman 2 Building

"Remember" ©Anahid, mixed media on found wood

 Visit our building, see the art and architecture of Goodman 2. 

Art Exhibit at SF Zen Center

Modern Mystical Art by Anahid

The Yellow Path - ©Anahid 2013
Acrylics on wood panel
18"x24"

 Exhibit will run July 1 - 31, 2014 

  SF Zen Center,  City Center Lounge

300 Page Street, San Francisco, CA

Reception: Frdiay July 11

7 - 9 p.m.

http://www.sfzc.org/cc/display.asp?catid=&pageid=4298

All are welcome!

Art Show at the Collage Gallery

"Bodhisattva Altar"

©Anahid, 2014

mixed-media assemblage box

Anahid is artist of the month at the Collage Gallery in Potrero Hill

Exhibit runs April 1 - 29, 2014
Opening Reception: Friday April 4, 2014
6 - 9 p.m.

1345 -18th Street, (near Missouri)

San Francisco, CA 94107

(415)282-4401

www.collage-gallery.com

Art making connects me to my soul and spirit

and I hope the viewer can do some of the same.

SF Open Studios Hub

Come visit on Friday night Nov.1, to see an Art Exhibit at Dogpatch Cafe and Gallery on 3rd. St., as part of Artspan's SF Open Studios HUB. 

Please click this entire link for details: 

http://us7.campaign-archive1.com/?u=e0454d4fc5f48e738028ff9dd&id=dacb54885c&e=470d3b9a16

"She Who Watches..." copyright ©Anahid 

acrylics, mixed-media with copper and shells on wood panel

28"x24"x3"

This is one of two paintings I am exhibiting at this group show. It's a wonderful gallery space with big windows facing west, and it's next door to a cafe of the same name serving nice food.

And our Open Studios are this coming weekend Nov.2 &3rd., 11 - 6 at the Goodman-2 Bldg., 
1695 18th St. (nr. Arkansas), in San Francisco.

She Who Watches - the evolution of a painting

©Anahid-2011 - 'She Who Watches' -mixed media on wood with shells 28"X24"

(click on image for a larger view)

This piece started with a pencil drawing I had done a few years back of a woman pushing back her covers like she was getting out of bed. One day I was looking through my sketchbook and thought it would be nice to use that drawing in a painting. I had a large piece of found plywood that lends itself to collage and assemblage of all kinds. 

So I traced the drawing onto the wood that had been gessoed white on the top right hand corner; the rest was gessoed with clear gesso so as as to retain the natural wood grain which inspired some of the painting, and the rest of the elements just kind of fell into place one by one.

Altar/Installation

This is a close-up view of an altar/installation I am exhibiting at Goodman2 Galleries as part of a show running from July 23 through September 25, 2011, entitled "Compost Cemetery Concept"

 Two more views of the same installation with mask, branches, bones, Goddess images, flowers etc.
Altars have a way of falling together out of natural found objects like twigs, bones and images or statues.
I've also used live plants and two of my garden mosaic stepping stones.