Karine is an Artist based in Yerevan, who often spends her time in the US.
In a few words, Karine is a lady who brings light and positive emotions to this world.
From her childhood, painting was a natural and organic part of her life. Her first solo exhibition was when she was five. Then she chose a career of an architect. In 2006 she obtained a Master in Arts and New Technologies from the European University of Madrid. Nevertheless after that she continued being an architect and successfully worked in that field for more than twenty years.
Starting from 2020 the artist in her awakened after a long pause and took the driver’s seat of her life. It was then, when she finally felt really happy.
And that happiness soaks into her paintings and shines through her canvases, with all the bright colors of her imagination.
The main subject of her inspiration are cities, streets, backyards of her city Yerevan and places from her imaginary and subconscious world.
She is like a wizard, who touches the grey post-Soviet Yerevan backyards and their decayed illegal constructions start glittering and dancing, the grayness disappears and only the warm childhood memories and king feelings stay. Her paintings are full of warmth, colors and life-affirming energy.
She has had various solo exhibitions and group shows in Yerevan and California. Her favorite media are watercolor and acrylics, but anything that leaves traces on any surface suddenly becomes a creation of art in her hands.
Exhibitions
“My
Cities” solo exhibition in the Gallery of Zangak Bookstore in
Yerevan, September 19 – October 28, 2022
Opening of an artwork called “Make Love not War” in the patio the House-Museum of Aram
Khachaturian in Yerevan, September 9, 2022
Open air solo exhibition during the Strawberry Fields Forever
festival in Watsonville CA, May 15, 2022
Solo exhibition in St. Andrew Armenian Apostolic Church in
Cupertino CA, April 23-24 2022
Group Exhibition at
the Union of Artists of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, February 10-17, 2022
Exhibition-concert. Solo Exhibition at the House-museum of Aram Khachatryan, Yerevan, Armenia, July
2021
"Awakening" Solo Exhibition in The Chamber of Architects of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia, May
22 – June 04 2021
Ellipsis Armenian Digital & Augmented Reality Art Exhibit Group Exhibition, Glendale, Ca, USA, 2021
Private Solo Art Show for 70th anniversary of prominent ecologist Inga
Zarafyan at Aghveran Park
Resort, Aghveran, Armenia, May 2021
Fundraiser sale of artworks for homeless families of
Artsakh at Brand Park Glendale
CA, November 22, 2020.
Fundraiser sale of artworks for homeless families of
Artsakh at Brand Park Glendale
CA, November 29, 2020.
Private show at Narine
Isajanyan's studio, Burbank,
CA, 2020
Private personal exhibition sale at Baghramyan 46, Yerevan Armenia, May 2020.
"Architectural Sketches Collection" exhibition
organized by Shatvoryan Advanced School
of Architecture, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Arts, Pan-Armenian
Association of Architects and Engineers, November 2019.
Exhibition dedicated to 80 years of Yerevan State
University of Architecture and Construction. Participation with a project “Optimization of Erevan’s interior
courtyards urban space". Museum of Architecture. Yerevan 2002.
Festival-Competition of young artists of all Russia. Diploma of Honor. Moscow 1989.
