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.

Contemplation

©Anahid  2011- 'Contemplation' 

mixed-media with collage and drawing on textured paper, 
mounted and framed, 30"X16

This piece evolved from a drawing I made in my sketchbook based on a statue of a woman Buddha or (Buddhita as I call them) in the Asian Art Museum. This drawing changed quite a bit when I drew it again on a larger scale as you can see. The process of artmaking is fascinating to me, how images evolve, how they appear in the first place, sometimes as a faint vision which won't quit until you make it visible. It's almost like they have a life of their own, they do.
 

@Anahid 2011

Here's the first drawing I did inspired by the statue, which by the way looked very different from this sketch.

I am now doing another version of this image on a wooden surface with a great wooden frame. I will post it soon, it's a work in progress.

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.