With More Scenes, Columbia, S.C., artist David Yaghjian creating the follow up exhibition to his 2015 solo show at if ART Gallery called Scenes. The new exhibition will show new paintings and sculptures. More Scenes will open with a reception on Saturday, December 9, 2017, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. Yaghjian will present a gallery talk one week later, on Saturday, December 16, 2:00 p.m. The exhibition will run through December 30.

Columbia native Yaghjian, who was born in 1948, is a mainstay on the city’s art scene and among the most original contemporary painters in the Carolinas. He was selected for the 701 Center for Contemporary Art South Carolina Biennial 2013, 2015 and 2017. His work also is currently in a group exhibition at the Stanback Museum at South Carolina State University in Orangeburg. Yaghjian was featured in the 2012 book 100 Southern Artists. The exhibition catalogue David Yaghjian: Everyman Turns Six accompanied a major 2011 solo exhibition at Gallery 80808/Vista Studios in Columbia, organized by if ART Gallery, which also presented his 2009 show Dancing Man.

In 2012, the Columbia native was included in Faces of Figureworks: Self Portraits at Figureworks gallery in Brooklyn, N.Y., an exhibition that included Byron Browne, Philip Evergood, Red Grooms, Chaim Gross, Jack Levine and Raphael and Moses Soyer. He was among six artists in the 2007 Greenville County (S.C.) Museum of Art exhibition Studio Visits. That year’s David & Edmund Yaghjian, which included his late father’s work, was at if ART Gallery.

Yaghjian has shown extensively throughout the Southeast, including at Blue Spiral I in Asheville, N.C.; the Florence (S.C.) Museum of Art; the S.C. State Museum and McKissick Museum in Columbia; and the Spruill Center Gallery in Atlanta. In Atlanta he also has painted several murals.

Yaghjian holds a BA from Massachusetts’ Amherst College and studied in New York City at the Art Students League and the School of Visual Art. Among his instructors were Fairfield Porter, Leonard Baskin, Will Barnett and Chaim Koppelman.