Born and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, I am an artist/art educator/designer living and working in Chicago, Illinois.  I attended Massachusetts College of Art/BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago/MFA and the University of Illinois Chicago/BFA.   

Selected exhibitions  

CICA Museum, Figures 2024, Gimpo, South Korea; Purple Window Gallery, FUZZ, Chicago, IL; Alma Art & Interiors, ALMA V:  ALMA’s Second Annual Fall Exhibition, Chicago, IL; Alma Art & Interiors, Threaded Together, Chicago, IL; Gallery Z, Armenian Artists from Around  the World Exhibit, Warwick, RI; Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Well-Behaved Women:  Celebrating 100 years of Women's Suffrage, Michigan City, INGuest Juror & Featured Artist/The Art Center Highland Park, Love & Collaboration, Highland Park, IL; Bridgeport Art Center, Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition 2020 Vision, Bridgeport, IL; Chicago Printmakers Collaborative, 30th Annual International Small Print Exhibition, Chicago, IL; Mana Contemporary, THE OTHER ART FAIR, Chicago, IL; Gallery Z, Abstract, Conceptual, & Multimedia Art, Providence, RI; Old Courthouse Arts Center, Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition, #NakedTruth, Woodstock, IL; Women Made Gallery, Midwest Open, Chicago, IL; Elmhurst Art Museum, Chicago Women’s Caucus for Art Exhibition,   Transmogrification, Elmhurst, IL; Koehnline Museum of Art, Women and Anger:  Resistance, Power, and Inspiration, Des Plaines, IL; Providence Art Club, Making Your Mark, Providence, RI; The Art Center-Highland Park, Beneath The Surface, Highland Park, IL; Koehnline Museum of Art, Beyond Rosie The Riveter, Des Plaines, IL; MoMa PS1, Printed Matter Book Fair, Long Island City, NY; Studio/Gallery Z, Providence, RI; Upstream Gallery, Dobbs Ferry, NY; Windsor Whip Works Art Gallery, Windsor, NY; and Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL.


Upcoming Exhibit


CICA Museum

Gimpo, South Korea

Figures 2024 

September 11-29, 2024



Recent Exhibits


Purple Window Gallery

2233 S Throop Street, Unit 845, Chicago, IL 60608

FUZZ

Opening: Friday, November 10th|6 - 9 pm

November 10, 2023 - December 1, 2023


Alma Art & Interiors

3636 South Iron Street, Chicago, IL.  60609

ALMA V:  ALMA’s Second Annual Fall Exhibition

Opening: Friday, November 10th|5 - 9 pm

November 10, 2023 - March 1, 2024

Open to the public on Sunday|12 – 5 pm

Openings:  Third Friday's|5 - 8 pm


Past Exhibits


Alma Art & Interiors

3636 South Iron Street, Chicago, IL.  60609

Threaded Together 

Opening: Friday, Apr 8, 2022 |5– 8 pm

Threaded Together represents the best not only of Alma but also LKM Art Consulting, introducing myriad art making materials and practices including collage, gems & crystals, vintage stamps, metal sculptures, alongside the painting, fiber art, sculpture, wood work and textiles from last year. About the show’s title, curator Lynn Manilow, says “We are all bound together by fragile threads. Covid certainly crystalized that in a global way. But by coming together, we are all stronger. That’s how I see this exhibit and all that it represents.”

Artists

Anthony Adcock, Michelle Peterson Albandoz, Macus Alonso, Pinar Aral, Anoush Bargamian, Lynn Basa, Marc Benja, Bojana Ilic-Bojitt, Curtis Anthony Bozif, Mia Capodilupo, Elizabeth Coyne, Salvador Dominguez, Sarah Dupré, Stanley Dean Edwards, Melon Sprout,, Walter A. Fydryck, Amanda Gentry, Eric Gushee, Chris Heck, Dorothy Hughes, Brenda Jackson, Terry Karpowicz, Erin Kaya, Stephen Klassen, Pauline Kochanski, Rika Kova, Melissa Leandro, Beth LeFauve, Sandra Leonard, Nathan Mason, Thomas Masters, Maggie Meiners, Scott Mossman, Martina Nehrling, Sarah Nishiura, Raul Ortiz, Louise Pappageorge, Corinne D. Peterson, Nancy Pirri, Jennifer Presant, Sarah Raskey, Dana Rogers, Spencer Rogers (RIP), Jeffrey Sanderson, Jordan Scott, Yvette Kaiser Smith, Yasmin Spiro, Ginny Sykes, Indira Johnson, Allison Svoboda and Zachary E. Weber.


Gallery/Studio Z

100 Bellows Street, Unit 8, Warwick, RI 02888  

Armenian Artists from Around  the World Exhibit

July  17 - September 11, 2021

"ARMENIAN ARTISTS - A RICH COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ARMENIAN ART" ushers in Autumn at Studio Z, showcasing over 100 original works of original art in a breadth of contemporary styles and themes from our vast array of talented established Armenian artists. These nationally and internationally renowned, living and non-living artists from four corners of the world are exhibiting their original works in Providence, the capital city of Rhode Island, the smallest state in the union.
Some of the many artists on exhibit include Kevork Mourad (b.1970), three generations of Elibekian family painters, Simon Samsonian (b.1915 - d.2003), Zareh Mutafian (b.1907 - d.1980), Reuben Nakian (b.1897 - d.1986), Alexander Grigorian (b.1927 - d.2007), Hagop Hagopian (b.1923 - d.2013) and Rafael Atoyan (b.1931), Karnig Nalbandian (b.1916 - d.1989), Anoush Bargamian (b.1963), Martin Barooshian (b.1929), Seda Bekarian (b.1953), Samuel Gareginyan (b.1961), Emma Gregorian (b.1943), PAKRAD (b.1939), Harut Aghajanian (b.1956) among numerous others."


Invitational Exhibit


Lubeznik Center for the Arts

101 W 2nd Street, Michigan City, IN 46360

Well Behaved Women: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage

July 3 - October 23, 2020

Well-Behaved Women: Celebrating 100 Years of Women’s Suffrage is comprised of artworks by 23 women artists in order to celebrate the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which gave women and men equal voting rights.

Well-Behaved Women includes living, contemporary artists and a number of deceased artists from different eras. Many of the artists share their lived experiences, addressing areas where women lack access or rights; lean into the emotions felt as a result of inequity; critique language; and subvert the canon of the “male gaze” where women are presented as objects rather than subjects. They elevate and reclaim mediums, such as embroidery and quilting, that have been historically denigrated as “craft” and “women’s work.” There are also those who draw strength from the spiritual power inherent in their female ancestry.

From the engravings of Maria Sibylla Merian, the first woman to study insects scientifically, to four famous women of the Abstract Expressionist movement who accomplished ground-breaking status in a genre that was steeped in brute masculinity, this exhibition celebrates a variety of women’s voices that have led us to this moment in time.

Exhibiting Artists: Anoush Bargamian, Marie Bergstedt, Melissa Blount, Whitney Bradshaw, Ruth Burke, Mary Ellen Croteau, Elaine de Kooning , Shannon Downey, Grace Hartigan, Juarez Hawkins, Olivia Jobbe, Rachel Kanter, Sam Kirk, Lee Krasner, Anne Leuck, Maria Sibylla Merian, Joan Mitchell, Natalie Jackson O’Neal, Colleen O’Rourke, Macie Renee, Cathi Schwable, Hollis Sigler and Ashley Paige Young.


Anoush Bargamian

100% HUMAN, detail

(9 panel installation)

2020

unique screenprints on metal

72 x 78 inches

12 x 24 inches (individual panel)


Anoush Bargamian

100% HUMAN

(9 panel installation)

2020

unique screenprints on metal

72 x 78 inches

12 x 24 inches (individual panel)



Using Format