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Post by sleepboy on Sept 20, 2009 16:16:12 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Sept 22, 2009 10:14:49 GMT -8
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Post by lowpro on Sept 22, 2009 11:00:29 GMT -8
Loving that Red Panda. One of my favorite animals eva.
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Post by roqlarue on Oct 5, 2009 14:36:03 GMT -8
I think these are Ana's strongest paintings to date- just look at them! Anyway- the preview is available if anyone not already on the preview list is interested. You can email me at kirsten@roqlarue.com. There will be 5 paintings and a handful of drawings available. I'll post more images when I can get some shots of the frames which are really impressive.  Ana Bagayan "Willow"  Ana Bagayan "Death's Knell"  Ana Bagayan "Fox and Girl" Interestingly, Ana was telling me that in Victorian times it was desirable for young girls to have photos taken of them with foxes since it represented "purity" strangely enough....and that certain ideal images placed on young women were very important in Armenia where she grew up (similar archetypes are prevalent in US culture too of course) and this series of works is about those ideals. This poem goes with the exhibition. "It was that cult of chastity. A vow.
Victorian. Families spent fortunes
to get their child a fox. All her passions
would be transfered to that beast, somehow.
Made it better, they said. Sinful to be
without a fox, proof you were no virgin.
A girl would sit for days in her garden
wishing upon her fox; wildly, madly.
Foxes, though, shouldn't really be trusted.
They have a naked hunger just like yours.
Soon word came that wicked things in the moors,
glens, heath were happening, odd and wicked."- Zachary Jean Chartkoff  |
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Post by roqlarue on Oct 7, 2009 20:23:27 GMT -8
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Post by greenhorn1 on Oct 8, 2009 5:24:12 GMT -8
I've never been that huge a fan of her stuff in the past but I'm REALLY liking the pieces for this show. I'd definitely pick up a print of critters or willow if they ever made one.
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