_still_dancing/ (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Ilya Vartanian

A dancing body advances across a saturated red field, assembled from interrupted bands of turquoise, grey and yellow.
The pose remains legible even as the image breaks and reconnects along its contours.
The image passes through drawing, photography and the digital environment before being manually transferred onto
canvas using acrylic medium. Each stage alters the image and becomes part of the next, leaving traces of the process
embedded in the final surface. Acrylic functions here as part of the transfer and material construction of the work rather
than as a conventional painting medium. The result is a technological palimpsest in which figuration and abstraction
coexist.
The work is presented on unstretched canvas.
No generative AI was used in the creation of this artwork.

Materials used:

mixed media and image transfer on canvas

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 89 x 115 x 0.1cm (unframed)
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: People and portraits