Description
‘Icosahedron’ by Ana Bagayan
Artist: Ana Bagayan
Title: ‘Icosahedron’
Medium: Oil and Acrylic on Cradled Wood Panel
Dimensions: 12″ x 12″
Framed: Framed in White Frame
Year of Creation: 2020
About the Artwork:
“I drew inspiration for this painting from the name of the show. I wanted to combine the element of water with the isolated darkness of space. Crystallized matter is permeated by an infrared and ultraviolet background. A cosmic womb takes the shape of the twenty-sided icosahedron (one of the five platonic solids). A stellar aquarium which holds together spiraling galaxies and chromatic lifeforms. Fish drift freely through the crisp lines because nothing is really solid in the electric Universe!” – Ana Bagayan
About the Artist:
(Artist Bio)
Ana Bagayan is a formally trained illustrator and fine artist from Los Angeles, CA. Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1983, she immigrated to the USA at the age of six with her family and earned a BFA in Illustration from Art Center College of Design. Ana’s artwork is inspired by the ethereal – E.T.s, aliens, spirits, ghosts, intergalactic space creatures, anything that hints at the idea that we are just a small part of the unimaginably vast Universe.
Ana began her art career illustrating for ad agencies, brands, and publications such as Spin, Rolling Stone, Publicis Mojo, Diesel, Honda, Mighty Fine, Sydney Symphony, Young Guns, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, Saatchi & Saatchi, Weiden & Kennedy London, GQ, Men’s Health, SONY BMG, among others.
Her original paintings have since been exhibited worldwide for over a decade, from Billy Shire‘s La Luz de Jesus gallery in Los Angeles to Takashi Murakami‘s Hidari Zingaro gallery in Tokyo.
She has received numerous awards from American Illustration and Communication Arts awards, as well as Gold Ozzie Award, SILA, and Eckersleys Award.
Ana currently lives in sunny Southern California with her husband and two dogs. When she’s not painting, she is making webcomics and training in krav maga!