Ana bagayan biography
Ana Bagayan was....
Ana Bagayan is an Armenian Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in Their work will be on exhibit at La Luz de Jesus Gallery in Los Angeles on.
By: Colin Berry | June 1,
When she was 6 years old, AnaBagayan and her family moved from the Armenian capital of Yerevan to aplace halfway around the world: Burbank, California—suburban andAmerican, as unlike Yerevan as the sun is the moon.
Imagine: a littlegirl leaving a familiar city of million with an ancient history, andarriving in a foreign metropolis of 13 million that barely existed acentury ago.
Luckily, the young Bagayan had a way to relieve thestress.
“I didn’t really play with dolls, but I’d beendrawing my whole life,” Bagayan says, “whether it was formaltraining or just my mom trying to teach me.” She began taking herfirst American art classes, hating them at first but pressing on thoughhigh school.
She liked the Flemish painters, the old masters. “Idid a report on Leonardo da Vinci,” she recalls. “I wasreally fascinated with him sneaking into hospitals and drawing bodyparts.” Also during those years, Bagayan discovered the graphicnovels of Dave Cooper, with their dis