About Gago
Gagik Vardanyan
Gagik Vardanyan – GaGo was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1960. He graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1985. In 1999 Gagik moved to Buenos, Argentina, where he embraced Latin American culture and art, and his art was touched by the energy and the beauty of Buenos Aires. In 2018 – GaGo established residence in California. Inspired by nature, and the cultural diversity, GaGo created and continues to create some large series of modern abstract paintings such as “Motion”, “Impressions of California”, and “Urban Flower”.
GaGo is not unusual in having many artists inside him; he is unusual in letting so many of them out, and regarding them all as equally authentic".
Artist Statement
I started approaching art and painting more seriously when I was 14 years old (1974). Since then, I have received formal education and have met with some of the most important artists from Russia and Armenia.
During my early years, I was very intrigued by Eastern art, literature, and philosophy, which inspired me and influenced my art. After that period of my life, I started to study the biggest European artists who opened my mind to many different perspectives and techniques. In 1999, I moved to Argentina, and the possibility of meeting great writers, artists, and thinkers made me appreciate the Latin-American culture and art, which, combined with the multicultural nature of Buenos Aires, made me discover a new world and meaning to my work.
This is similar to the process that I am able to experience in California. I personally think that an artist has to be open to new experiences, realities, philosophies, and let all those changes influence and find their way to be expressed through the creative process. This is the only way that painting can always be interesting and surprising, not only to the public but to me as an artist.
Credentials
Education
Bachelor of Fine Arts – State Institute of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
Master of Fine Arts – University, National Academy of Armenia Arts, Yerevan Armenia
Selected exhibitions
“Apophenia”- LAMAG, Los Angeles, CA – 2023
“Abstraction in perspective”- Group Exhibition – Pablo Bogdan Art Gallery, West Los Angeles, CA – 2023
Retrospective exhibition – Californian Dreams – Artbug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA -2022
“Group exhibition” – Blacktower Gallery, Miami, FL -2022
“Wynwood Biennale 2022 ” – Miami, FL – 2022
“Generations” – Brand Library, Glendale, CA – 2022
“International Exhibition Castell Dell’Ovo”, – Castell Dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy, 2020
“That layered look II”- Tufenkian Art Gallery, Glendale California, 2020
“Rizoma” – Roslin Art Gallery, Glendale, California, 2020
“The Many Faces of Armenians” – Roslin Art Gallery. Glendale, California, 2018
“Exhibition about Armenian Genocide” – ACE/121. Gallery, Glendale, California, 2018
“Greatest Masters of Argentina” – Armenian Cultural Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016
”Eggo Arte Fair” – Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2013,2014 & 2015
“New York Art Expo” – New York, USA, 2013
“Individual exhibition” – Sara García Uriburu Art Gallery. Buenos Aires, Argentina 2012
“Art Forum ARMENI”- Museum Castel-Dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy, 2010
“International Exhibition” – National Cultural Centre of Kuwait, Hall Abdul-Al-Salam, Al-Kuwait, 2010
“37 Work on Paper” Exhibition at Brand Library and Gallery, Glendale California, 2008
“International Exhibition ” – Vernissage Gallery of Fine Arts Carmel, California, 2008