Artist Sophia Gasparian to donate her work to “Artworks for Healing”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Sophia Gasparian is one of many successful artists who have agreed to donate their work to “Artworks for Healing” on February 8 at the Skirball Center, Brentwood, LA, The West Side Today reports.

Gasparian is known for her sociopolitical work. As an artist, she thrives on blatant political subjects. She was born in Yerevan, Armenia.

Gasparian’s work began in experimental film and later transitioned to installation combining video, sound and painting. In 2002, Sophia developed the installation “The Day of the Dead: Armenian Genocide 1915.” In 2005, she co-curated an international group exhibition “Requiem for the Genocide” with Yerevan MOCA.

Constantly pushing barriers, Gasparian recently completed the “Forced to Confront the Face of Evil” series. Her narrative paintings intertwine childlike innocence with sociopolitical criticism and her aesthetic approach remains apart from mainstream art, incorporating stencils, stickers, spray paint and other nontraditional media.

This fundraiser will benefit the nonprofit organization, A Window Between Worlds. Celebrating their 20th anniversary, A Window Between Worlds has helped thousands of survivors of domestic violence, through art programs.

The event is presented in collaboration with Heidi Gray and the James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station, as well as several other prominent Los Angeles galleries.