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Sara Issakharian

There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there

18 August – 16 September 2021, Tanya Leighton Los Angeles
4654 W Washington Blvd

Sara Issakharian, Silent Response, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 199×245 cm, 78.5×96.5 in

Sara Issakharian, Silent Response, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 199×245 cm, 78.5×96.5 in

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Sara Issakharian, Silent Response, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 199×245 cm, 78.5×96.5 in

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Sara Issakharian, Silent Response, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 199×245 cm, 78.5×96.5 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Silent Response, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 199×245 cm, 78.5×96.5 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian

There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there

18 August – 16 September 2021, Tanya Leighton Los Angeles
4654 W Washington Blvd

Sara Issakharian, Homeward Bound, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal on canvas, 200.6×281.9 cm, 79×111 in

Sara Issakharian, Homeward Bound, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal on canvas, 200.6×281.9 cm, 79×111 in

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Sara Issakharian, Homeward Bound, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal on canvas, 200.6×281.9 cm, 79×111 in

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Sara Issakharian, Homeward Bound, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal on canvas, 200.6×281.9 cm, 79×111 in

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Sara Issakharian

There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there

18 August – 16 September 2021, Tanya Leighton Los Angeles
4654 W Washington Blvd

Sara Issakharian, I’m a Hunter, I Hunt for…, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Sara Issakharian, I’m a Hunter, I Hunt for…, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

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Sara Issakharian, I’m a Hunter, I Hunt for…, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

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Sara Issakharian, I’m a Hunter, I Hunt for…, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

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Sara Issakharian

There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there

18 August – 16 September 2021, Tanya Leighton Los Angeles
4654 W Washington Blvd

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

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Sara Issakharian

There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there

18 August – 16 September 2021, Tanya Leighton Los Angeles
4654 W Washington Blvd

Tuesday 17 August 2021, 12–8pm

Tanya Leighton Los Angeles, is pleased to debut ‘There’s a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there’ by Sara Issakharian. This is the first solo presentation of the artist’s work since joining the gallery’s program in 2021. Issakharian draws from a range of styles that call to mind early modernism’s obsession with reinvigorating a “primitive” sensibility—a preoccupation intimately bound up with fantasies of purity and innocence that undergird nationalist myths. By presenting a mythopoeic world of creatures, her work conjures associations of various national emblems.

Taken together, Issakharian’s paintings strike one as a kind of Manichean epic whose plot is lost to time. In each work, ghostly, chimerical animals are embellished with vibrant emerald green, vermillion red, and yellow ochre; the treatment of which equivocates between disciplined, figurative illustration and frustrated outbursts of childlike, violent scribbling. Most noticeable in the work is the manner in which the artist envelops her figures in a chalky fog of washed-out pinks and ivories. Behind the noisiness of the foreground, there lies a palpable pale silence.

By playing on Manichean dualisms, Sara Issakharian’s expressionistic imagery dwells on adversarial relationships such as predator and prey, aggression and calmness, and light and dark—terms that the artist uses to describe her own subjects. And these dichotomies characterise Issakharian’s aesthetic sensibility, which contemplates her ambivalent feelings toward her native Iran, a contradictory mix of longing and anger.

Issakharian emigrated from Iran as a teenager, but she remains deeply connected to it, following its politics closely—especially the welfare of women. A hidden anger pulses throughout Issakharian’s dualistic cosmology. In Iran, violence against women is hidden, first by a culture of silence and second by the state. In her paintings, aggressive strokes of charcoal are washed out, drawing attention to the act of suppression as an aesthetic operation that bleeds animal forms into one another. In Issakharian’s mythopoeic world, dangers lie everywhere—like wolves in fog.

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Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Remembered Landscape, 2021

Acrylic, pastel, charcoal, and colour pencil on canvas, 193x335.2 cm, 76x132 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Pleasure, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Sara Issakharian, Pleasure, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Pleasure, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Pleasure, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Pleasure, 2021

Acrylic, ink, colour pencil, and pastel on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian

There's a whole life in that, in knowing that the sun is there

18 August – 16 September 2021, Tanya Leighton Los Angeles
4654 W Washington Blvd

Sara Issakharian, Inside the Frame, 2021

Acrylic, ink, and colour pencil on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Sara Issakharian, Inside the Frame, 2021

Acrylic, ink, and colour pencil on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

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Sara Issakharian, Inside the Frame, 2021

Acrylic, ink, and colour pencil on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

Detail

Sara Issakharian, Inside the Frame, 2021

Acrylic, ink, and colour pencil on paper, 55.9×76.2 cm, 22×30 in

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