Please visit my website here: http://www.sizanna.com
My Bio
Sizanna Janashvili was born in Georgia (Former USSR) in an artistic family. Her father, Mordechai (Misha) Janashvili was a renown painter. He was Sizanna's mentor.
Sizanna has lived in the USA since 1974 and her work has been exhibited in solo exhibitions in New York and New Jersey. Her works are represented in many private collections in the United States, Italy, Switzerland, Georgia and Israel.
Sizanna's reputable service and exceptional output has been well received by the public and has earned her celebrity clientele as well. Some of the notable celebrities are the late Tejano musician, Selena and latin recording artist, Luis Miguel (both of which have made the cover of a well known hispanic national publication, Osmus). She has also done portraits of a well known and prominent family, Adele and R.Brinkley Smithers (patrons of Smithers Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center). This portrait is prominently displayed in their foundation. Yet another portrait of great composer Eubie Blake is displayed in Forest Hills High School, in Queens, New York.
In 1997 was invited by Georgia's First Lady Nanuly Shevardnadze to do a charity exhibition for an international society, "Women of Georgia for Peace and Life." It was a phenomenal success. Her works are in the permanent collection of Edward Shevardnadze's foundation "Democracy and Revival."
My Philosophy
The Palette of Perpetual Hope
There is an open sky for a human being at the end of a life, as well as an open ground. We give our ached, tortured body to the land. We trust our hopes, dreams and fate to reach cosmic spheres. This is noble in us, that we never give up, despite so many obstacles in life. We always hope for a better future. We are often confused from harsh reality. Skepticism keeps us untrusting which time to time breaks our spirit and takes all the energy from us. Then again, we'll get all overfilled with new energy and strive for perfection. We artists are lucky that we could release ourselves with our creations from social structure and give ourselves freedom from reality. My image of a woman in my creation is a symbol of a strong soul - a symbol of fate and hope. She is also a symbol of protest against a dominated society which is, in spite of progress with technology, degraded in real sense.
Tidbits
There is a book in the works being written about me called "The Palette of Hope" by author Jumber Jishkariani - He started writing it in 2003 and it is near its completion.
