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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