Astronomical Diaries - Nana Tchitchoua x T. Wade IVY
Exhibition @ OBRA Silver Lake
On view DEC. 12 to DEC. 24 2021
Reception: DEC. 11 from 7 - 10PM
Limited Edition Books and Prints from NANA TCHITCHOUA.
Animation Projections and Live Sound Accompaniment from T. Wade Ivy aka MWOWM.
Astronomical Diaries
VOL I, II, III 2015 - 2019
Architectural Graphic Standards 4th Edition
Recycled architectural diagrams provide a foundation for discovery of the universe through texture, symbols and archetypes. Playfully exploring cosmic themes, the human figure, and the rich diversity of living things, this body of work is a serenade to the beauty and mystery of creation. A joyful chronicle of space and time without beginning, middle, or end.
Nana TCHITCHOUA
b. 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia
Lives and works in LA, CA, 1992 - present
Statement
My work stems from personal experiences of heightened states of emotions. Through painting, drawing, collage, and experimental animation I engage spiritually with the world - focusing on the energy and psyche of the individual. In the interplay between abstract and representational, the layering of time, energy, memory and form, lie the contradictions and duality of life’s daily process.
My work draws on universal themes of mutabilities, love and death, innocence and experience, cosmos and cohabitation of humans with their environment. Subjects which turn up again and again in my work are depictions of flora and fauna, which could be seen as guides to my own subconscious (and the viewers’) to help navigate these depths.
My central interest currently lies in transformation and seeking to understand the tendencies of change, the alchemy of one thing turning into another, allowing materials to produce images intuitively and my temperament to speak the impressions of inner experience.
Bio
Nana Tchitchoua was born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She immigrated to the USA with her family in 1992 and continued her art and film education at California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Art (2000) and an MFA in Experimental Animation (2002).
In 2003 she married fellow artist Wade Ivy who she collaborates with for decades on film and animations projects.
Through her cross-cultural interests she has founded art spaces and curated exhibitions internationally, most notably in her native Georgia and her adopted home of Southern California. These include Guest Room Projects, The Kindergarten for All Ages, Gregg Fleishman Studio, Culver City, CA, US, (2007-2010); The Beekeepers Institute and Outopia, Oxygen Tbilisinofair, Stamba D Block, Tbilisi, Georgia (2018) and American Pavilion, Art-Villa Garikula, Kaspi Region, Georgia, 2007-present.
She was a Fellow and Liaison for the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles, CA, US (2003-2020).
Currently lives and works in LA, California.
T. Wade IVY
‘MWOWM’
b. 1976 in Lakenheath, UK
Lives and works in LA, CA, 1995 - present
Bio
T.Wade Ivy is a Los Angeles-based experimental animator and sound artist. He was born in UK, and raised in Texas. He studied fine art at UCLA and experimental animation at CalArts, where he received an MFA in 2002.
He has been working with his Georgian wife, artist Nanuka Tchitchoua, creating drawings, paintings, books and animations. They have participated in multiple art residency programs and festivals in Georgia, in particular Festinova (2009-2015) Art Villa Garikula. Their most recent exhibition was in Stamba in 2018, Tbilisi. Since 2002, Wade has been working in feature film visual effects in Los Angeles.
His modular synthesizer is built to complement his visual work, entering a cosmic collaboration with analogue and digital circuitry.
