TERZIAN GALLERIES
625 Main Street, Park City, UT 84060
(435) 649-4927
[email protected]
http://www.terziangalleries.com
Terzian Galleries opened its doors
for business in December 2004,
after art appreciator Karen Terzian
signed a lease in August 2004. She
previously operated two galleries
in her native state of California.
She credits her love of beauty,
creativity and art to her mother who
was born in Russia. From a young
age, all the arts—music, theatre,
visual arts—were cultivated by her
teacher mother, who was unable
to buy expensive artworks but
always supported local artists with
commissions and collecting.
The gallery has blended a group
of Utah and Mountain West talent
along with artists from California,
Illinois and beyond. Terzian has
always gone by her gut feeling as to
what she shows in the gallery, and
artwork by artists represented by
the gallery might appear in her own
personal collection.
“What once was a sleepy little
mountain town trying to make a
name for itself is now a bustling
but still beautiful and sophisticated
mountain town. Along with the
sophistication has come curious
people and a more worldly art buyer
now looking for contemporary
works, pieces by ‘local’ or regional
artists and a collecting knowledge
that we haven’t seen before,” Terzian
says. “We are finding more people
respond to abstract and works with
a contemporary spin as opposed to
the true ‘Western art’ of the past in
our town.”
This season the gallery has invited
Utah talents Susan Makov and Sam
Walker to join its roster—both have
never shown in Park City before. In
December the gallery celebrates its
15 th anniversary with an all-gallery
show on December 13. One of the
most anticipated exhibitions of the
upcoming year is for young gun
Annie Hooker in February.1
Terzian
Galleries,
Clear and
Crisp, oil on
canvas,
30 x 30",
by Tracey
Sylvester
Harris.2
Terzian
Galleries,
Grizzly Grit,
acrylic on
panel,
40 x 30",
by Annie
Hooker.3
Terzian
Galleries,
Rules of
Thirds, oil
on canvas,
36 x 48",
by Zachary
Proctor.“Along with the sophistication has come
curious people and a more worldly art buyer
now looking for contemporary works, pieces
by ‘local’ or regional artists and a collecting
knowledge that we haven’t seen before.”— Karen Terzian, owner, Terzian Galleries12 3116 http://www.AmericanArtCollector.com
DESTINATION » PARK CITY