Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman

Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman—a Georgian painter now living in New York—conjures mystical expressionistic scenes tinged with the fog of distant memories. Her landscapes swirl and bend in faded tones of green and orange, giving themselves over to abstracted, rhythmic repetitions, an evocative trace of Kavtaradze-Eyerman’s previous career in music. These lilting, sonorous spaces are peopled by figures between childhood and adulthood, characters whose ghostly faces recall the paintings of Edvard Munch. Pictorial space—pliable and shifting—manifests their internal states and implicit relationships.

This expressive iconography emerges from Kavtaradze-Eyerman’s charged scenes of collective memory. Recurring caged birds suggest the suffocating binding of family and cultural tradition; children being moved by parents as by puppet masters question the legacy of emotional inheritance; crisscrossing gazes and uneasy poses betray unspeakable tensions in fantastic group portraits. Kavtaradze-Eyerman’s whimsical scenes invariably evoke and re-configure the viewer’s own childhood experiences and family history. Her visions, informed by our memories, economically conjure entire narratives of cultural origins and personal histories. Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman graduated from the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts.

Portal to Enigma
Reception: Thursday July 23, 2009 6-8 PM
Exhibition Dates: 7/21/2009 - 8/11/2009

Invitation to Tsisana Kavtaradze-Eyerman's exhibition

Dialogue Acrylic on Canvas 26" x 36" $2000 Dialogue Acrylic on Canvas 26" x 36" $2000	Merry-Go-Round Acrylic on Canvas 31" x 28" $4000 Merry-Go-Round Acrylic on Canvas 31" x 28" $4000
Dialogue 2 Acrylic on Canvas 38" x 19" $2000 Dialogue 2 Acrylic on Canvas 38" x 19" $2000