Sopho Chkhikvadze
Artist Sopho Chkhikvadze[edit]
Sopho Chkhikvadze (born 1972) lives and works in London, UK. Sopho Chkhikvadze was born in Tbilisi, Georgia. She studied fine art at J. Nikoladze Tbilisi State Art School and later accomplished Masters degree in fine art at Tbilisi State Academy of Art, Tbilisi, Georgia in 1997. Chkhikvadze's practice shares stylistic approach with the early modernist painters and can be characterized as a contemporary 'faux naïf'. Her works give a false impression of childlike simplicity, while being complex in technique as well as meaning. Her compositions are serene, subtle and somehow mystic too. Her blurry imagery never gives the sense of exact time and place, in fact, her mystic images resemble fragments from a story, focused on a detail out of context. The blurry oil strokes create ambience and are ambiguous in their character. Chkhikvadze's works are held in the Moscow Modern Art Museum, Muzeum Montanelli and private collections across Europe.
National Portrait Gallery - BP Portrait award 2017[edit]
The portrait is of the journalist, David Wigg, who Chkhikvadze first met in a London café when his appearance intrigued the artist. She asked him to sit for a portrait, and it was not until later in the conversation that she discovered his profession.
Philip Hensher : The most rewarding portraits are those that go beyond a face, and somehow capture a personality. Sopio Chkhikvadze’s portrait of the journalist David Wigg might not be the most conventionally skilled piece of painting here. But she has the sense to place him in an interior, and it perfectly renders his unmistakable appearance, regal, daffy and very slightly frayed round the edges.[1]
National Portrait Gallery - BP Portrait Award 2016 - Portrait of Martin Chaffer[edit]
Portrait of Martin Chaffer The portrait is of the photographer, Martin Chaffer, whom the artist’s son asked to sit for a portrait after meeting him at an exhibition. Chaffer has a particular interest in paintings and agreed to several sittings with the artist. Chkhikvadze decided to paint Chaffer with a map of London to provide an interesting visual context [1]
Exhibitions[edit]
2017 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2017 Affordable Art Fair, Battersea Park, London
2016 London Art Fair
2016 Summer Exhibition, Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2016 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2016 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London
2016 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London (Winner of The Michael Harding Prize).
2015 Saatchi gallery ‘Start’ Art fair
2015 Contemporary Istanbul 2015
2012 London "Pop Art Gallery" Christmas Exhibition
2011 Tbilisi "Gallery 9" Personal Exhibition
2009 Prague "Muzeum Montanelli"
2009 Prague Biennale
2009 London "Farmiloe Fine Art Gallery" Personal Exhibition
2008 Glasgow "Gerber Fine Art Gallery" Winter Exhibition
2008 Art Club, London
2008 Personal Exhibition, Mim Gallery, Baku
2007 Personal Exhibition, Hobby Gallery, Tbilisi
2006 Tbilisi Gallery “Kopala”
2004 Moscow Contemporary Art Museum
2003 Tbilisi Art Gallery “TMS”
2003 Tbilisi Art Gallery “Hobby”
2002 Tbilisi Modern Fine Art Gallery
2002 Tbilisi “Tagisi” Gallery, Personal Exhibition
2002 UN House
2001 Tbilisi “N” Gallery
2001 Tbilisi Art Gallery “Hobby”
2000 Tbilisi Theatrical Basement Exhibition “On the Land”
2000 Summer Exhibition at National Gallery of Georgia - Tbilisi
1999 Tbilisi “TMS” Gallery, Personal Exhibition
1991 Tbilisi Historical Museum “Karvasla”[2]
References[edit]
https://www.mallgalleries.org.uk/artist/sopio-chkhikvadze
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp-portrait-award-2017/exhibition/exhibitors-entries/david-wigg
https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/bp2016/exhibition/exhibitors-entries/mr.martin-chaffer
- ↑ "Art Eyes on the prize: The BP Portrait Award 2017". Mail Online. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
- ↑ "Sopio Chkhikvadze | | Mall Galleries". Mall Galleries. Retrieved 2018-08-13.
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