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.

SF Open Studios

The artists in our building (Goodman-2) finally got it together to have open studios again in our beautiful building in Potrero Hill after many years....

Contemplation-2

©Anahid 2012 - Acrylics, graphite and inks on wood panel with wooden frame.

This piece is a variation on the first Contemplation collage I posted in November 2011.  This is how this image of feminine contemplation/meditation evolved first from a sketch inspired by a sculpture, to a mixed-media collage and now a simple and understated drawing/painting on wood. This is not a painting though in the usual sense, the acrylics are used like watercolors, very thin and watery so as not to overwhelm the drawing element. I am usually very fond of intense and saturated colors layered on top of each other, but here I enjoy the simple line drawing as an expression of her serenity. We all need some serenity in this crazy world.

I don't know yet if I'll continue this particular series or not, we'll see what the muses bring....

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.