Sentences with phrase «of armenian»

The son of Armenian immigrants, Lou Vahan Bozigian, Coldwell Banker Bozigian Realty, Lancaster, Calif., never lost sight of one of the fundamental responsibilities of American citizenship: to build strong communities.

(The largest population of Armenian - Americans in the country is within Southland Regional's territory.)

United Armenian Students, Glendale • CA 2005 — 2009 Armenian Public Relations Chair Co-organized one - and two - week summer camps for up to 300 children, and developed successful marketing campaigns to publicize the camp, and led in the discussion of Armenian history and literature discussions.

Out of the darkness of the Armenian genocide and our film, we will bring light into the world to help people who need it today.»

Allen is a member of the Armenian Bar Association and a mentor to law students through the association's mentorship program.

The parties in Z were both French (though the husband was of Armenian descent: he was born in Paris).

Moreover the republic is growing and becoming more developed at an increasingly large amount, sooner or later many of the Armenian diaspora (which outnumber those living in the former Armenian SSR) will want to return home.

Painting, drawing, writing, collage and sculpture, rendered in raw, expressionistic fashion, are all part of the mix in the work of this Armenian - Egyptian artist whose solo exhibition at the New Museum marks her first in the United States.

That was also the modus operandi of the Armenian genocide — right down to the box cars shipping the victims to their slaughter.

A pair of Armenian researchers who locals call the «stork girls» are recruiting «nest neighbors» in rural villages to help them monitor the country's population of the large wading birds, which have traditionally been a symbol of luck and success in the former Soviet Republic.For the past four years, ArmeniaNow reports, young scientists Lusine Stepanyan and Maro Kochinyan have been visiting «virtually every area where storks nest in Armenia [to] distribute special calendars among the residents living near the nests.»

Every year the Hammer Museum and the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music present a concert of Armenian classical music that commemorates the anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

The work of Armenian - born painter Arshile Gorky (1904 - 48), who landed in the U.S. in the wake of the Armenian genocide of 1915, is generally shown with the Surrealists and the Abstract Expressionists, figures for whom the canvas represented a space in which to pour out their subconscious.

was a preeminent American Modernist artist of Armenian descent.

As a child, the artist survived the genocide of the Armenian people by the Ottoman Turks.

So, if you have Gorky in that storage, not as a representation of American painting but as a representative of Armenian culture, in Diaspora, you've got a different story.

Artist: Arshile Gorky (1904 - 48), one of the greatest American painters, was so uncertain about how to make sense of his Armenian origins that he adopted a Russian name, telling people he was the nephew of the writer Maxim Gorky - implausibly, since this was a pen name.

Arshile Gorky — Karlen Mooradian Archive, Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern), New York.

Saturday, May 27, Kevork Mourad — a Syrian - born, New York — based artist of Armenian heritage — will paint live on stage to the music of a Hawai`i musician.

At 4 p.m. Saturday, May 27 — immediately following the opening talk and reception with Attorney General Douglas Chin — Kevork Mourad, a Syrian - born, New York — based artist of Armenian heritage, paints live on stage to the music of Hawai`i Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Ignace (Iggy) Jang.

Boghiguian was also included in the Golden Lion - winning Armenian Pavilion at the 2015 Venice Biennale, which memorialized the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

16.45 — 18.00 SESSION 3 Ozlem Koksal: Representations of Armenian Genocide in Contemporary Video and Photography Julian Ross: Punctuating Motion — Slide Projection in the Emergence of Video in 1960 - 70s Japan Respondent: May Adadol Ingawanij

Arshile Gorky Biography and Paintings of Armenian - American Abstract Expressionist.

In Pursuit of the Ideal, displays works by Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 — 1900), a Russian painter of Armenian...

Armen Agop was born in Cairo of Armenian descent in 1969.

«Kiss the Ground — A New Armenia (Part 3),» the culmination of a series of exhibitions marking the centennial of the Armenian Genocide, delineates the aftermath of trauma.

The award for best national pavilion went to Armenia, whose exhibition, «Armenity,» featured a group of artists from the Armenian diaspora who, as organizers of the show wrote, are «grandchildren of survivors of the Armenian Genocide — the first genocide of the 20th century» and builders of «a «transnational assembly» from the remnants of a shattered identity.»

Barsamian will exhibit Ashfall as a part of a series of events at SCSU marking the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide.

The catalogue comprehends also a section dedicated to essays by New York - based art historian and independent curator Neery Melkonian, by London - based art writer and Ibraaz editor Stephanie Bailey, and by Valentina Calzolari, Professor of Armenian Studies at the University of Geneva.

Courtesy of the Arshile Gorky Foundation and the Diocese of the Armenian Church (Eastern).

Courtesy of the Arshile Gorky Foundation and the Diocese of Armenian Church of America (Eastern).

Courtesy of the Diocese of the Armenian Church of America (Eastern).

Selected paintings by artist Simon Birch, a UK - born artist, of Armenian descent, who is based in Hong Kong, China.

The upcoming exhibition at the Quogue Gallery comes on the heels of news that Pinajian's artwork has been chosen by the United States Department of State for an exhibition of American artists of Armenian heritage in the American Ambassador's Residence in Yerevan, Armenia.

«The Loom of History» marks the first US solo exhibition of Armenian - Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt), whose raw and expressionistic works combine painting, drawing, writing, collage, and sculpture to contemplate the past and present through intersections of economics, philosophy, literature, and myth.

«He was one of the giants, but a quiet giant,» says Iwan Wirth, Hauser & Wirth president, of the Armenian - born American artist.

«The Loom of History marks the first US solo exhibition of Armenian - Egyptian artist Anna Boghiguian (b. 1946, Cairo, Egypt).

The opening of The Flesh Is Yours, The Bones Are Ours coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide.

Natural parallels are most obvious in the work of the Armenian - born Gorky, whose early titles show directly the inspiration of nature — Water of the Flowery Mill, from 1945.

With these Object works, Yosef is interested in the ambivalence between objection and objects as it relates to his family history as the child of an Armenian Christian mother and Kurdish Muslim father, two groups that have been at odds, at times violently, throughout history.

Reuben Nakian (born August 10, 1897, College Point, New York — died December 4, 1986, Stamford, Connecticut) was an American sculptor and teacher of Armenian extraction.

Gorky's innovative, explosive landscapes used an abstract vocabulary to convey memories of his Armenian childhood alongside direct observations of nature.

With their nascent, slippery forms they often allude, enigmatically, to memories of his Armenian past, and, more specifically, to memories of his mother.

Titled «Gorky In Context,» Dr. Rand's lecture will help to explain the personal symbolism of the Armenian - born artist whose works are currently on view until November 6 in a DMFA exhibition, ARSHILE GORKY, 1904 - 1948: A RETROSPECTIVE.

This watershed period witnessed a flourishing of breakthrough works — such as the present example — in which the artist unfurled a new pictorial language inspired by the natural world and infused with childhood memories of his Armenian birthplace.

Arshile Gorky echoed memories of the Armenian genocide in his childhood.

The programme, which opens on 5 September, will commemorate the centenary of the Armenian genocide.

«Anna Boghiguian: The Loom of History» will be the first solo exhibition of the Armenian - Egyptian artist's work in the United States.

Altoon was born in Los Angeles in 1925 of Armenian - immigrant parents (the family name was Altoonian).

«Sacrifice for the Fleet,» now at L.A. Louver, hosts a series of new and recent works born from the artist's fascination with Greek literature, Biblical texts, and Armenian manuscripts (he is the son of Armenian refugees).

Entitled Armenity — a term inspired by the diaspora of Armenian artists and intellectuals around the world — the pavilion embraces the work of eighteen contemporary artists, all of which are descendants of Armenian Genocide survivors.