_traffic_rain/ (2025) Original Mixed-media Painting by Ilya Vartanian

Long vertical fragments descend across a pale pink field, alternately solid, reflective and partially erased.
Turquoise passages interrupt the rhythmic fall, creating a tension between the image’s vertical order and its
unstable material edges.
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: 65 x 85 x 0.1cm (unframed)
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative