| Jackie Kazarian Education: School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, MFA, 1989 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, BS, Zoology, 1981 Lives in Chicago, IL Since the early 1990s, Jackie Kazarian has been producing a significant body of abstract painting that has drawn its richness from her education in science as well as her collaborations with dancers and composers to create stage designs. As she states: “I began making art to investigate some scientific truths and challenge the belief systems used to explain the world.” Her studio is a “vision laboratory” where she probes systems of depiction established by art history as well as the theological ramifications and perceptual metaphors that arise from the “uncertainty principle” of advanced physics. The tensile strength of Kazarian’s lean galvanic compositions resides in this empirical drive to comprehend the real condition of the universe. |
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Jackie Kazarian: exhale installation views, Alfedena Gallery, 2008
Ceiling, 2008, oil on canvas, 24 x 31 inches $2,000
Exhalation, 2007, oil on canvas, 24 x 31 inches $2,000
Surrender, 2008, acrylic, oil on canvas, 72 x 96 inches $10,000
Avalanche, 2008, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, wallpaper, ink on paper, 29.5 x 41.5 inches $2,000
Blout, 2008, acrylic, oil on canvas, 47 5/8 x 55 7/8 inches $4,000
Crossover, 2008, acylic, oil on canvas, 48 x 54 inches $4,000
Oak, 2008, mixed media on paper, 9 x 12 inches $800
Pranayama, 2008, mixed media on paper, 12 x 9 inches $800
Skyway, 2008, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, ink on paper, 29.5 x 41.5 inches $2,000
Explosive Landscape (hand), 2007, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, flock, ink on paper, 8 x 10 inches $800 (framed)
Explosive Landscape (foam), 2007, watercolor, acrylic, gouache, flock, ink on paper, 8 x 10 inches $800 (framed)