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| First Name | Liana |
| Last Name | Goroian |
| Born | 1961-03-16 |
| Country | United States |
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Liana Goroian (LEONGO)
Some people are born knowing who they are and where they are
going while others spend their entire lives trying to find
out. Yet, some never do. Born in Armenia on the 16th of March,
1960, Liana Goroian had always known.
Liana remembers drawing and painting as a toddler.
Liana has been painting at 3 years of age.
Her father, a musician and architect, recognized her talent
in music and fine art and became her first and most important teacher.
At age five, Ms. Goroian began playing the piano and
expressing the feelings of the characters she drew.
Like many children of the arts, she
was accepted at art school at age six. She began her
formal training and two years later took part in
local, countrywide, and international juried
exhibitions. At the age of eight she entered a Russian-Armenian
International exhibition ÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂKids represent the Peaceful WorldÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂ, receiving a gold medal .
In 1969 at nine, she received the Grand Prix at the
annual International Exhibition in Moscow.
She continued her studies at the College of Fine Arts in Yerevan.
Goroian completed her higher education in art at the Armenian State Institute of Fine Art. In 1981, she graduated from the Institute with the highest art degree offered,
a Masters Degree in Art and Design.
As a talented student, Liana was invited to participate in exhibitions in different countries in Europe, such as Russia, Poland, Germany and France.
Currently, Liana Goroian resides in Los Angeles, California.
Within the last few years, Liana has had numerous solo exhibitions
in different galleries of the United States. Her works are on display at prestigious galleries in Russia, Armenia, Poland, and Los Angeles. Art collectors are proud owners of Liana Goroian's exquisite art works.
Awards & memberships: 1981- Soviet Union State Diploma for Outstanding
Achievement in Fine Arts; 1985 member of the USSR Artists Union;
1991- "Teacher of the year" Award for Outstanding Achievement,
Armenian State University of Fine Arts;
1992- "Best Artist of the Year" Award, Yerevan, Armenia.
Ms.. Goroian had her first solo show in a prestigious
Moscow gallery in 1989. Influenced by photographs left
by her great grandmother-a actress in Stanislavsky Theatre-
and by her great grandfather-an officer in the Czar's army-the several paintings
generated immediate interest.
In 1994 she moved to the United States with her family .
In Los Angeles, Liana worked as story board artist, illustrator, textile designer, graphic designer, and apparel designer for different companies, also was a teacher in her own Art Studio.
In her paintings, women often live in a mystical world, surrounded by bizarre forms, signs and objects - a world real to them, to be taken seriously. "Mirror of Art Nouveau", her first collection, was twelve works about love, life and beauty, "My daughter and her dance students were the prototypes for my characters", says Liana. Designing costumes for these models, she drew numerous preliminary sketches.
Liana Goroian peers into an inner spiritual world and expresses that on canvas.
"Why are my subjectÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs women? Because beauty excites me, I like to see transformations, diversity, the layers covering the vulnerable paleness of a female arm, or tender mat luster of flesh; the skin's translucence beneath a film of gauze draping a naked body. It might as well be the ultramarine of the night sky and the whiteness of the stars. My brush does not just move about the surface, it carefully penetrates the space of another dimension, going beyond the frontier - which is insurmountable to anyone else. There truly is space and life behind that fragile margin, as in a mirror. Of these space and life forms I express my daily chronicles, of their everyday life and feasts. And - of women who belong there". |
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