Lot 2185
Naira & Rafik Barseghian (Armenian/American, 20th century), Four Art Pottery Panels
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Large green panel 32 1/2 x 20 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.; thin green panel 31 1/4 x 2 1/4 x 1/2 in.; large red panel 32 3/4 x 22 1/4 x 1 3/4 in.; thin red panel 41 1/2 x 2 3/4 in.
Born in Armenia in 1966, Naira Barseghian began painting as a teenager and later enrolled in the University of Fine Arts and Theatre in Yerevan where she majored in industrial design. During this time, she broadened her artistic range and further developed her oil and watercolor painting techniques by studying with leading Russian artists.
Naira emigrated to the US in 1991, where she enrolled in community art classes, learning the basics of throwing and hand-building ceramics, becoming quickly enamored of the process. She quickly developed a reputation as a talented ceramic artist and was named the Glendale Community College “Artist of the Year.” Naira has continued her practice aided by the influence and critique of her husband Rafik who studied fine arts and sculpture in Austria.
Recently, Naira and Rafik have combined their talents in the Sunland Studio attached to their house to create ceramic tile wood tables, wall sculptures, and functional pottery, all inspired by nature and its countless variations of shapes, colors, and plays of light.
Good estate condition.
