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About Tina Karagulian

Tina Karagulian facilitates your creativity and empowerment. She is a counselor, sound healer, artist, collage facilitator, and Kundalini Yoga instructor, offering clarity guidance sessions, stress-reduction yoga, and contemplative art experiences for women, groups, and businesses to increase creativity and balance mind, body, and spirit. Her paintings are filled with color and movement that come alive, whether the subject is sea, sky, abstract, modern, floral, bird, and still-life imagery. All her offerings support your transformation and empowerment, awakening you to your true essence and infinite, creative potential.

I am Tina Karagulian, and I absolutely love to support your soul wisdom and empowerment. For over 30 years, I have walked with others during their spiritual awakenings, life transitions, dark night of the soul, and inner transformation. Clients report experiencing inner peace, increased health and vitality, connection to their inner truth, and awakened creativity in a safe and inviting space. I collaborate with you to explore embodiment practices (inner child dialogue, yoga, body wisdom, guided meditations, creativity, and sound healing), so you can be fully present in your body and life.

As a licensed counselor, I offer space for you to speak your truth, open your creativity (with collage), reparent your inner child with compassion, and understand your mind. As an intuitive artist, I create unique bird and abstract paintings of color and movement that come to life to inspire and spark healing in you. As a 200-hour certified Kundalini Yoga instructor and group facilitator, I teach ways to increase mental focus and intuition, go into stillness, and include sound healing relaxation to integrate your experience. I invite opportunities for you to speak truth, trust your natural rhythm, and awaken your creativity, and find what brings your soul joy in your life.

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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, and SAALM (San Antonio Art League and Museum).

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.
 

Books

Tina Karagulian's memoir It Is Time, and her books of poetry Inner and Outer Space: Paintings and Poetry, Under the Papaya Tree: A Book of Love Poems, and New Skin: Poetry and Prayers, are published through Black Rose Arts & Press. Her poetry and prayers have also been published in the following anthologies: Lifting Women's Voices: Prayers to Change the World and Sustaining Abundant Life.

SOLO ART EXHIBITIONS                        

                                                                                      

May 1–31, 2018
¡Alegría! Mirth! Ուրախություն! (19 paintings on display)
Twin Sisters Bakery and Cafe, 6322 N. New Braunfels Ave, San Antonio, TX 78209

May 19, 2017–July 27, 2017
Celebrating New Heights in Women's Art (17 paintings on display)
REMAX New Heights, 5936 Broadway, San Antonio, TX 78209
Premier artist and curator of this exhibit, establishing venue to support women artists in SA.

November 14, 2015
Paintings and Poetry by Tina Karagulian (10 paintings on display)
Private exhibition by Michelle Mayer, 106 Sir Arthur Court, San Antonio, TX

March 14–April 11, 2015
Inner and Outer Space: Paintings and Poetry by Tina Karagulian, 12 paintings and poems
Intermezzo Gallery, 119 E. Theissen, Boerne, TX; Poetry Reading by Tina Karagulian and Jazz Music Stylings by John Lind https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbEGRd-r_Z

Dec 7, 2014–Jan 7, 2015
Tranquil Seas: Contemporary Paintings by Tina Karagulian (10 paintings on display)
Church of Reconciliation, 8900 Starcrest, San Antonio, TX 78217

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 EXHIBITIONS                                                                                                                     

March 4-April 12, 2019
A Certain Sense of Her, Celebrating Women’s History Month
Coastal Bend College
Beeville, TX

January 13-February 21, 2019
GAGA@SAALM
Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association Group Exhibition at the San Antonio Art League and Museum
San Antonio, TX

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. Displayed Gaze, Melodic, and Resonance.  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; Displayed paintings Translucent Wave, Poppies and then Some, Remoulade, and Female Cardinal in Snow.

Sep 24-December 31, 2018
Art and Contemplation, Cathedral House Gallery, 111 Torcido Drive, San Antonio, TX
Displayed Luminous, Gaze, Sunset in the Nevada Mountains, and A Touch of Lavender.

March 4–Apr 7, 2017
GAGA@TRIBECA, Tribeca Restaurant, San Antonio, TX. For contemporary art month, Gentileschi Aegis Gallery Association or GAGA group exhibition. Displayed Translucent Wave.  www.gagaart.org

Sept 8, 2016–Jan 7, 2017
Art Heals Hearts Exhibition, Ecumenical Center, San Antonio, TX
Displayed Abstract Blue and Dawn’s Ascent.

June 10–11, 2016
Come Hang with Us, Artists with a Mission, San Antonio, TX (17 paintings on display)
Featured artist, along with artists Katherine Brown and D. Ellis Phelps.

May 19–July 31, 2013
Sacred Ground Art Exhibit, Cathedral Gallery, 111 Torcido Drive, San Antonio, TX 78209 (6 paintings exhibited)
 
November 2008
Release and Receive: Portals of Transcendence by artists Tina Karagulian and Jane Appleby
Fishead Design Studio and Microgallery, www.fisheadproductions.com