Artist Talk Ani Gurashvili

"In Gurashvili’s universe, one is thus by turns peering down through a half-stitched tear into an uncertain scene; backstage in a puppet theater where the dramatization of paint and canvas spills out into iconographic overload; drifting through an undefined space where ornamental flourish becomes precisely the frame through which you seem to look not into but out of the painting; or again in an almost exact inversion of this, peering into the painting as though looking into a shallow box, a chest of drawers, a series of compartments whose contents disperse under the still strange weight of painting’s promise to deliver some recognizable moment of grace."  –Edward Sterrett