Kardash Onnig |
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Since the early 1970s, Kardash's art has reflected a quest for crossing borders. He has lived and worked with various cultures, initiating a process of collaborative creativity: "observing and learning from the 'other,' recognizing one's own heritage as connecting tissue within the larger corpus of universality, celebrating the other as both complement and elucidation of one's own significance, and becoming, ultimately, the other." These activities have come to define what the artist calls transferences: multifaceted interactions fostering a continuum of spiritual, philosophical, scientific and artistic synthesis, and leading to the emergence of a new inner archetype. __________________
Born: 1941 in Zahleh , Lebanon Immigrated to the USA in 1958
Attended Art Students League
Exhibitions:[partial]
1969 – Artists Studio, NYC –“Sculptures” 1972 – “Sculptures;Life Line Stressed”, Millerton , NY 1975 – “Stress Point Sculptures”,Tarika Gallery- Montreal , Canada 1976 – “Artists Toys” , Tarika Gallery – Montreal , Canada 1984 – “Sculptures”, Kent School Gallery , Kent ,CT 1985 – Group exhibition, Tananbaum Gallery, NYC 1986 – “Martyrs”, installation –NYC 1987 – “Portraits of the Dead”, installation – Brand Park , Los Angeles , CA “Ritualarium” ,installation, Los Angeles , CA 1988 – “Memorium”, installation Los Angeles International Art Fair “Shatillah” , International Art Festival, Iraq 1990 – “Way of the Cross/Crossing Borders”, installation Cathedral of St. John the Divine- New York , NY 1991 – “Way of the Cross/Crossing Borders” , installation at All Hallows By the Tower London , UK 1994 – “Quaternary Synergism”, installation at the Santa Fe International Academy of Art, Santa Fe , NM “Quaternary Synergism”, installation at Tekeyan Art Gallery- Los Angeles,CA 1997 – collaboration with Narod Armenian Children's Cultural Institute 2000- “4-D/More- D” –performance piece featuring recent wood sculptures- NYC 2001 – First invited Artist in Residence[stone sculptures] –diaspora by the Cultural Ministry of Armenia “4 Stones” – installation-Shushi,Nagorno Karabagh 2003 – “New Tools for Being” installation featuring sculpture/drawings –New Arts Gallery , Litchfield , CT
COLLECTIONS:[partial]
42 nd Street Public Library,NYC Queen Noor of Jordon Manougian,CEO Masco Corp., Detroit , MI Leslie Buckland,CEO Carbiner Inc.,NYC Louise Simone Manougian CEO AGBU,NYC Isseye Myaki, Fashion Designer , Japan Brooke Shields, Actress, NYC Peter DeLaney, London , UK Arkady Ghoukassian,President of the Republic of Nagorno Karabagh Hovig Papazian, Montreal , Canada John Sahag Salon, NYC Miller/ Howard Investments Inc, Woodstock , NY Hrayr Karaguezian, Los Angeles , CA George Beylerian, CEO Material Connections, NYC Zavin Akian, Los Angeles , CA Therese Balagna, Millbrook , NY
PUBLICATIONS: Has published 10 books including poetry, children's books, sculpture
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