Sketchozine.com Masters | Alexandra Manukyan | Brilliant Surrealist Fine Arts Painter

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http://alexandramanukyan.com - Alexandra Manukyan was born and raised in Armenia, and since a very young age has been interested in fine arts and spent many years stydyng painting, drawing and sculpture. She graduated art school, college, and State Pedagogical University as an art major in Armenia. After immigrating to the States, she continued her education and majored in Fashion and Graphic design. Since 1990 Alexandra worked in Fashion and Entertainment industries as a designer and graphic artist. In Fashion industry she created screen print art, textile print designs and fashion editorials and worked for the companies such as: Susan Borrows (1991-1994), Bill Glazer and Associates Inc. (1994-1997), CC Collection Inc. (1997-1998), Fashion Life Inc. (1998 to present). From 2002 to 2006 she freelanced for the Entertainment Industry. I designed and illustrated movie posters and worked with companies such as BLT and Associates, Shoolery design, Bird design, Big Picture Group Advertising, 1124 Design Inc. etc.

"The central theme that unites all my paintings examines how seemingly separate and isolated life experiences actually disguise the extent of our individual and communal bonds. The "masks" and the accompanying identities we all assume depending on the life role we must play obstructs the conscious mind from acknowledging what truly unites us through the isolation and chaos: our shared encounters of pain, loss, desire, and longing for serenity and acceptance. The false facades we all manufacture to adapt and belong also renders most blind and lost in a world where the meaningless has somehow become meaningful and the idea of a shared honest self devoid of hidden agendas all too infrequent.

I focus on combining traditional oil painting techniques with surrealist symbolism to communicate the immediate and lasting impact of technological innovations on the human body and psyche. One recurring motif in my paintings often appears as the feminine form bearing the burdens of worldly grief and mistakes on her body bowing in resignation to a seemingly inevitable fate: the acquiescence of the corporeal state to the encroaching dominance of modern technologies conjoining itself like an apathetic demon of silicon and circuitry cursing more than fulfilling promises of beauty and comfort."

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