Alexandra Manukyan

I work in oil paint, and use vivid colors to exude the perpetual turmoil, that exists inside the human core. I dress my characters in lush drapery or colorful costumes with intricate and specific details to give them definable personalities. I capture my characters during mysterious and intriguing interactions. The gestures and facial expressions of my characters as well as surrounding atmosphere, exhibit dynamics within human beings and relationships.
 
I combine traditional figurative painting techniques with surrealism and symbolism. In some paintings I use different gadgets and gears as body parts to convey the immediate impact of technological revolution on human body and soul. The protagonists are almost always feminine. The woman seems to bear the burden of all world's grief and mistakes on her body, although overwhelmed by this, she bows as if in the resignation to what is inevitable. It seems she has turned into a machine herself.