Tsiuri Chachua.is a Georgian (the country in Eastern Europe) artist currently living in Michigan. Chachua uses color and brushstroke to express her beliefs, hope and love. She sees her art as the performance she leaves behind on this stage called life.
“My art has gone through the evolution like my life, and you can see the stages of emotions reflected in every art piece. Starting when I was an young artist in the Soviet Union without freedom of expression, to the civil war in Georgia after the collapse of the USSR, to truly achieving freedom in my country, to holding my child for the first time who became my beacon of hope, to the day I stepped on the land of the free – the United States of America. I hope my story is told through my work, and generations will know what my family and country went through, and they will see that hope and love is what helped me push through even the unimaginable and achieve something presumed unattainable.
What I want you to see when you look at my work is just that – see the hope, love and resilience. I rarely name my art on purpose so that it can only show pure emotion and drive individual reactions in everyone who looks at it.
I have PhD from Tbilisi State Academy of Art (TSAA) in Georgia. I was a professor and a head of the drawing department at the Academy until I moved to the States. I have had numerous exhibitions and have participated in art festivals across Europe and the USA. I mostly use oil on canvas. Some of my art is mixed media. My style is primarily abstract, but I have some still life, nature, graphics, acrylic on canvas, etc. You can find more of my art pieces at my website www.chachua.com.”
