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Tina Karagulian
Black Rose Arts & Press
Austin, TX
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About Tina Karagulian
I serve sensitives, empaths, creatives, and contemplatives feeling called to live more authentically from the heart. As an artist, counselor, spiritual director, yoga instructor, sound healer, and collage facilitator, I offering intuitive, collage, and body wisdom courses, clarity guidance sessions, stress-reduction yoga, contemplative art experiences, painting commissions, and retreats for women, groups, and businesses. I hold space to increase your creativity, balance your mind and body, and support your life transitions, spiritual awakening, and transformation. My paintings are filled with color and movement that come alive to support you on your life journey. All offerings hold space and support awakening your true essence and infinite, creative potential, through embodiment practices such as:
*emotional freedom technique
*inner child or parts-work
*collage, guided visualization, and writing prompts
*past / past-life regressions, soul retrieval
*breath practices, yoga, and sound healing
For over 30 years, clients report experiencing inner peace, increased health and vitality, connection to their inner truth, and awakened creativity in a safe and inviting space. Contact me to customize a class for your group, or select a transformational package of sessions just for you. I absolutely love to support the awakening of your soul wisdom so you can live your life with joy-filled purpose.
VIDEO Interviews, Podcasts, & Articles
An interview Aug 29, 2024 with Antonio Frietze, Director of Continuing Education at Oblate School of Theology. We talk discuss the creation of the collage 8-week series and its impact on participants over the past 7 years.
Brilliance + PASSION August 22, 2022 podcast with Adam Hommey.
Light Up Your Worth
June 8, 2022 video interview with Debbie McAllister, discussing body wisdom, and Tina’s self-paced Gut and Goosebumps course.
Canvas Rebel September 19, 2022 article.
November 9, 2021 Voyage Austin article about local creatives and businesses in Austin, TX.
Photograph by Barbara Williams.
Son and artist Walden Booker with Tina Karagulian,
Painting Coral Flight at Intermezzo Gallery.
Photograph by Nakita Bickle.
Art Bio - Tina Karagulian
I was born in Pennsylvania, raised in New Jersey, educated in Massachusetts, and currently living in Austin, Texas. In a college elective class on painting, I discovered an intuitive ease of mixing colors. A self-taught artist, in 1992 I graduated with a Masters degree in Social Work from Boston University and incorporated art therapy and collage in my counseling with others. In 1996 I felt the pull to give time to my own creativity through acrylic painting. San Antonio's 1998 McNay Art Museum’s exhibition O’Keefe and Texas was a pivotal moment in how I viewed painting: when I saw pink snow in O’Keeffe’s painting of Roof with Snow, my world opened up, where the real world and abstraction could merge. Georgia O'Keeffe and Dorothy Hood pushed the edges of how I express form and space, with the simple, bold stroke of color. Matisse’s fauve paintings, his collage cut outs of color, and his blue nude series, inspired me to reshape elements in life in new ways. Along with painting, collage as an art form has never left me. It is the morning pages for all types of creativity to emerge, and I see it as a portal to ignite the creativity in others. My art solo exhibitions include Inner and Outer Space: Paintings and Poetry at Intermezzo Gallery, Boerne, TX in 2015, Celebrating New Heights in Women's Art in 2017, and the following group exhibitions: Release and Receive: Portals of Transcendence at Fishead Design Studio and Microgallery, San Antonio, Texas, and A Certain Sense of Her, Celebrating Women’s History Month at Coastal Bend College in Beeville, TX, a South Texas women's artist organization GAGA (Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association) exhibition. My artwork has been displayed at the San Antonio gallery Mockingbird Handprints, SAALM (San Antonio Art League and Museum), and my own art studio twice a year.
My styles of art vary from contemporary impressionism, fauvism, to realism. The subject matter of my work is usually nature in some form: water, birds, color, and light. Yet my process always starts with color, and in my vision, I often see at least two colors that beckon me. Color is alive and like to play and dance together, and color brings healing, balance, and peace into our homes, our bodies, and our world. Finding and pairing color to awaken the senses and connect to nature is my goal. I often find images when I walk outside by the trees, listen for the birds, walk by the ocean or river, or from my silent meditations. From clients' testimonials after they have purchased my artwork, I have heard common themes of peace and healing, and that is what I would like to impart for my audience as well as my art collectors. My art is contemporary yet nature-based, and I use many styles and elements to bring to life the spirit of the subject matter before me. It is a co-creation each time, meant to bring healing and to remind us all to embraces life’s endless possibilities. I invite you to find the joyful place within your hearts, to rest and to linger in contemplation, and to appreciate the majesty of our natural world.
SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS
December 2021, 2022, 2023, June & Dec 2024
Holiday Open Studio, South Austin, TX
Exhibition of my latest paintings and creations out of my own studio space.
Feb 1-14, 2021
Valentine Solo Exhibition
Salon Iris!
2605 Jones Road #104, Austin, TX 78745
May 1–31, 2018
¡Alegría! Mirth! Ուրախություն!
Twin Sisters, 6322 N. New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio, TX 78209
(19 paintings exhibited)
May 19, 2017–July 27, 2017
Celebrating New Heights in Women's Art
REMAX New Heights, 5936 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209
Premier artist and curator of this exhibit, establishing venue
to support women artists in San Antonio, TX.
(17 paintings exhibited)
November 14, 2015
Paintings and Poetry by Tina Karagulian Private art exhibition in the home of Michelle Mayer, 106 Sir Arthur Court, San Antonio, TX
(10 paintings exhibited)
March 14–April 11, 2015
Inner and Outer Space: Paintings and Poetry by Tina Karagulian
Intermezzo Gallery, 119 E. Theissen, Boerne, TX;
Poetry Reading by Tina Karagulian and Jazz Music Stylings by John Lind
(12 paintings and poetry exhibited)
Dec 7, 2014–Jan 7, 2015
Tranquil Seas: Contemporary Paintings by Tina Karagulian
Church of Reconciliation, 8900 Starcrest, San Antonio, TX 78217
(10 paintings exhibited)
October 9, 2014
Open House and Reception (9 paintings)
Executive Home Tenders, at 117 Geneseo Drive, Terrell Hills, San Antonio, TX 78209
March 23–April 30, 2013
Sea and Sky Art Exhibit by Tina Karagulian (8 paintings)
VIVA! Bookstore and Gallery, 8407 Broadway, San Antonio, TX
Group ART EXHIBITIONS
Sept 30-Oct 3, 2021
SiStars
Shades of Fall Sale & Online Live Art Exhibition
March 4-April 12, 2019
A Certain Sense of Her, Celebrating Women’s History Month
GAGA@SAALM
Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association
Coastal Bend College
Beeville, TX
www.gagaart.org/
January 13-February 21, 2019
GAGA@SAALM
Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association Group Exhibition at the San Antonio Art League and Museum
San Antonio, TX
www.gagaart.org/
Sep 8- 22, 2018
Dry Bones and New Flesh Art exhibition
First Lutheran Church, 130 W. Holland Street, San Marcos, TX
Part of 2018 Splash Festival of the Mermaid Society of SMTX;
Translucent Wave—juried selection.
Jan 10-Feb 24, 2018
All-Member Exhibition, The Art Center, Corpus Christi, TX
Hubble Telescope—juried selection
Jan 1–31, 2018
GAGA@THEMOVIES, Bjiou Cinema, 4522 Fredericksburg Road, San Antonio, TX
Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association or GAGA group exhibition.
www.gagaart.org/
December 6-26, 2017
Dimension XLV Exhibition, The Art Center, Corpus Christi, TX
Journey (Inner Gold)—juried selection.
Nov 2, 2017–April 1, 2018
Art Heals Hearts Exhibition, Ecumenical Center, San Antonio, TX;
(4 paintings exhibited)
Sep 24-December 31, 2018
Art and Contemplation, Cathedral House Gallery, 111 Torcido Drive, San Antonio, TX
(3 paintings exhibited)
March 4–Apr 7, 2017
GAGA@TRIBECA, Tribeca Restaurant, San Antonio, TX. For contemporary art month, Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association or GAGA group exhibition.
www.gagaart.org
Sept 8, 2016–Jan 7, 2017
Art Heals Hearts Exhibition, Ecumenical Center, San Antonio, TX
June 10–11, 2016
Come Hang with Us, Artists with a Mission, San Antonio, TX
Featured artist, along with artists Katherine Brown and D. Ellis Phelps.
(17 paintings exhibited)
May 19–July 31, 2013
Sacred Ground Art Exhibit, Cathedral Gallery, 111 Torcido Drive, San Antonio, TX
(6 paintings exhibited)
November 2008
Release and Receive: Portals of Transcendence
Group exhibition with artists Tina Karagulian and Jane Appleby
Fishead Design Studio and Microgallery,
www.fisheadproductions.com