A native of the Republic of Georgia, Giorgi Shanidze was born a true artist. He started to paint at age 3. Along with regular school he attended art schools in his home town, Tbilisi. He also expressed his passion for art through dance. Performing on stage from a very young age, he was surrounded by the history embodied in the dance of one of the oldest ethnicities in the world.
At the age of 16, being a principal dancer in the company, Giorgi also joined Tbilisi Iakob Nikoladze Art School. It is a leading Arts College where students are selected through a tough entrance exam. Upon admission he started studying painting and drawing in the Faculty of Painting.
During his studies he has taken several painting related courses: Drawing, Painting, Composition, Painting Technology, and Drawing Perspective along with painting teaching courses. He was fortunate to study with David Urushadze; a brilliant and renowned professor who mentored many successful generations of painters in Georgia. Giorgi graduated in 1996 with a Diploma in Painting Pedagogy.
Later, to pursue a higher degree in the Arts and fulfill his desire to paint, Giorgi finished his successful dance career and enrolled in Tbilisi State Academy of Fine Arts. There he specialized in Motion Picture Design. He trained with Dmitri Takaishvili on Motion Picture Design and Illustration, and with Esma Oniani on Painting. Throughout his Academy training between 1996-1999, he was awarded High Honors in Painting, Drawing, and Motion Picture Design subjects.
Today Giorgi Shanidze is accomplished artist living and creating in Brookline, Massachusetts. His unique taste and strong professional training allow him success in many mediums from oil painting and drawing to doll making and sculpting.
In 2012 Giorgi successfully participated in a group exhibition in Boston MA. In 2016 he was featured in “Design of New England” magazine for one of the murals, he created for local restaurant.
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Salome Rigvava was born in 1988 in Gagra, Abkhazia. She often focuses on a single cultural symbol and explores her subject in terms that are deeply personal. The figures are often females in different degrees of awareness. The tones are often soft but can take on a hyper-saturated and dark quality that lends to the psychology.
Salome graduated with a MFA at the New York Academy of Art, and continued her studies on a full scholarship at the Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design with Professor Holger Bunk in 2014. Previously, she studied painting at the Tbilisi State Academy of Art. She has participated in many personal and group exhibitions all around the world and was an Artist in Residence at Art Mora Studio Program in Ridgefield, New Jersey during the summer of 2016.
Her works are currently in private collections in Germany, Japan, the USA, Sweden, the UK, Russia and her homeland of Georgia.
Kako Dzneladze, born in 1958, despite being a representative
of a generation of artists active in post-Soviet Georgia, began his artistic education at the I. Repin Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Following the training of this elite university, he has remained under the strong influence of figurative painting with conventional techniques. The themes closest to Kako are
classical – portrait, self-portrait, nudes, still life and landscapes. He is deeply influenced by the impressionist, Art Nouveau or Art Deco styles.
Undoubtedly, Kako’s style reflects his life experiences born
into a country with a complicated history, often encouraging him to display fairy-tale and poetic themes in his works, and “escaping” towards symbolism.
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