Nana Tchitchoua
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Biography
Nana (Nanuka) Tchitchoua was born in 1978 in Tbilisi, Georgia. She immigrated to USA with her family in 1992 and continued her art and film education at California Institute of the Arts with BFA in Art (2000) and MFA in Experimental Animation (2002). In 2003 she married a fellow artist Wade Ivy who is her partner and collaborator on many experimental films and art endeavors. In 2003 until present she has been involved with the Museum of Jurassic Technology. Since 2010 till present she has been also involved with American Pavilion of Art-Villa-Garikula. Nana is an artist working in media from painting and drawing to animations and installations, showing her work internationally and most frequently in Georgia. Early highlights of Nana’s works include ‘Impressions from Rustaveli’ film (2002) which was presented film festivals and art venues including Guggenheim Gallery (Los Angeles) and MoMa (NY). Her current paintings stem from a spiritual engagement with the world, where the focus is on the energy and the psyche of the person, an ongoing investigation between abstract and figurative, layering of time, energy, memory and form. The central interest lies in transformation, the alchemy of one thing into another while negotiating between destruction and order, intention and coincidence; much like how identity shifts and the duality of life’s daily process. Her artworks find their roots in the geographies she has navigated throughout her life, most notably her native Georgia and adopted home of Southern California. Her process is meditative and intuitive as movement is recorded through a progression of subtractive flow of gestures as it passes through time and space.
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