Tigran Tsitoghdzyan

Kick Off 2021 With These Artists That the Artnet Gallery Network Is Watching in January

This month, we're looking at artists working in Johannesburg, San Francisco, and beyond.

At the Artnet Gallery Network, we make it our goal to discover new artists each and every month, searching through the thousands of talented artists on our website and selecting a few we find particularly intriguing right now. Though making bold resolutions (like ones about leaving the house) might seem a tad presumptuous after last year, if one of your goals is to keep an eye on interesting talents, you can do so from home by exploring the Artnet Gallery Network and looking out for our monthly round-up of artists to watch. 

Tigran Tsitoghdzyan at Sponder Gallery

At first glance, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan’s striking black-and-white portraits may seem like a photographic trick of superimposing two images together. The Armenia-born, New York-based artist’s works depict individual women shown with their hands over their faces—the faces themselves, however, appear on the surface of the hands as though projected onto their surface. The hyper-detailed images are not photographs, however, but monumentally scaled paintings. Tsitoghdzyan calls the series “Mirrors” and says the works are a reflection of the way people project outward onto images of women, while the women’s true identities remain obscured.