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 Anna Kostanian is a Los Angeles Area artist originally from Yerevan, Armenia. She began painting at age of 10 and arrived at her signature style, painting meticulous organic geometry composed in energetic patterns, earlier this decade. She has had numerous exhibitions in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene including a solo show at Arm

 Anna Kostanian is a Los Angeles Area artist originally from Yerevan, Armenia. She began painting at age of 10 and arrived at her signature style, painting meticulous organic geometry composed in energetic patterns, earlier this decade. She has had numerous exhibitions in the Los Angeles contemporary art scene including a solo show at Armenian Arts Gallery in 2017 and Coagula Curatorial Art Gallery. Her work communicates themes of commitment, evolution and ancestry. Painted on the human body and photographed, her prints in limited editions usually sell out within a month of release. She studied art at Otis College of Art and Design and can be followed on social media at   

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My painting practice is an extended ritual depicting energy manifested as a human sort of pulsar. I defeat the decorative with an imprecise minimalism, asserting evidence of my hand in all of its imperfect glory. This is physical work, the gesture is a residue of my body, a woman’s body and the feminine nature of process painting pulsates

My painting practice is an extended ritual depicting energy manifested as a human sort of pulsar. I defeat the decorative with an imprecise minimalism, asserting evidence of my hand in all of its imperfect glory. This is physical work, the gesture is a residue of my body, a woman’s body and the feminine nature of process painting pulsates in the work. My practice expands widely from this base. Displaying the work is offering a variant on possible multitudes. A standalone pulsar painted on vellum may have been part of larger installation and is now a singular work. Photographic documentation captures my work painted on bodies, women’s bodies. All of my painting is a private performance to capture space and time. The viewer is but a witness to this evidence of the energy of ancient startbursts, my pulsars.

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 Media Appearances


Univision 2019

Imperial Artist Collective 2019

Featured Artist, Little Tent Studios 2015

Shoemaker, Kristine, Perceive Me 

Celebrity Society 2011


Showings

Shelter: Sea to Sea Glendale, CA 2023

Discovering Takouhi: Portraits of Joan Agajanian Quinn, Watertown, MA 2022

Timeless: Black & White Portraits of Joan Agajanian Quinn La J

 Media Appearances


Univision 2019

Imperial Artist Collective 2019

Featured Artist, Little Tent Studios 2015

Shoemaker, Kristine, Perceive Me 

Celebrity Society 2011


Showings

Shelter: Sea to Sea Glendale, CA 2023

Discovering Takouhi: Portraits of Joan Agajanian Quinn, Watertown, MA 2022

Timeless: Black & White Portraits of Joan Agajanian Quinn La Jolla, CA 2022

Perceive Me (traveling show 2020 - 2023)

MOAH:CEDAR, Lancaster

The Rifles Our Ancestors Didn’t Have

LA River, Los Angeles 2020

Beyond Embodiment 

Brand Library, Los Angeles 2020

Perceive Me

Ronald H Silverman Fine Art Gallery, Los Angeles 2020

Armenia Art Fair

Yerevan Expo Center, Yerevan 2019

Urban Contemporary Movement & Street Art

Kond Street Art, Yerevan 2019

Dichotomy

Mind and Mill Gallery, Riverside 2018

Pure Not Proper

Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles 2018

Many Faces of Armenians

Celebrating Queer Armenian Art, Los Angeles 2018

Bloody Mess – Solo Show

Armenian Arts, Glendale 2017

She Loves – She Loves Collective

Los Angeles, 2017

Holy Moly

Niza Knoll Gallery, Denver 2016

Play

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles 2016

Arevdur Art Show

Armenian Arts, Glendale 2016

A Window Between Worlds

Art Works 4 Healing, Santa Monica 2015

Amor: The Colors of Passion

Exchange LA, Los Angeles 2013

12 12 12

Seeley Studios, Los Angeles 2012

Illuminate Art Show

LA Raw Artists, Los Angeles 2012

11 11 11

Solar Studio, Glendale 2011

LA Art Mix

Godo Gallery, Los Angeles 2011

Entartete Kust II

Stop Degenerate Art, Culver City 2011

Creative Collision

Supper Club, Los Angeles 2011

Creative Collision

Geisha House, Los Angeles 2011

Carnival Art Show

The G-Spot, Los Angeles 2011

Art or Die Show

Medusa Bar, Los Angeles 2011

Featured Artist for Armenian Genocide Commemoration Event

Los Angeles 2010, 2011

Thirsty Canvas

Fast-Side Luv, Los Angeles 2010

Exit Vision

Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles 2007

BA, Fine Art Painting

Otis 2007

Artist, multimedia, painter, photographer

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