I grew up on this kind of art, pieces filled with colour, and form, and accident. Ed Kuris was a colleague and his early work has so much of these elements. Very exciting stuff.
Minas Halaj was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in the family of artist Samuel Halaj.
1992-1996 Minas Halaj studied at Hakob Kojoyan Art School, Yerevan, Armenia, 1996-1998- Terlemezian College of Fine Art, Yerevan, Armenia, 1998-2002 Yerevan’s State Fine Arts Academy. And 2003-2006 SFAI, San Francisco, CA. Minas Halaj works in oil, mixed media and graphics. His graphic series, entitled Magnetic Flower is a mixture of many different styles, influences and elements. He incorporates flowers, nature, animals, anatomy and Roman sculpture techniques.[1]
Minas Halaj has got paintings from ‘American Renaissance’ that reflect the immigrant experience, each picture with a hallowed space that express a cry for home, the memories of place, history and culture, the violence of…
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