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Mooradian Gallery

Name: Mooradian Gallery
Address: 5211 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90027, US
Telephone: +13234867888
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Modern & Contemporary Fine Art Gallery Mooradian Gallery has since expanded and aims to promote a vast array of artists.

Mooradian Gallery was founded by Grigor Mooradian in 1991 with the purpose to represent Armenian art in the international marketplace. From 1991 to 2006 it exclusively collaborated with and represented Emil Kazaz, whose works have been internationally exhibited. Its purpose is to endorse works of art that span from the classical to modern day. As of 2007, Arthur Mooradian has led the gallery as di

rector by curating exhibitions and managing daily operations moving forward. The gallery currently showcases the art of over twenty leading artists whose works are exhibited world-wide and who have a permanent home in the museums in Armenia and abroad. The list includes such prominent artists as Martiros Saryan, Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan, Joseph Karalian, Gevorg Grigorian (Giotto,) Gregorio Sciltian, Jean Carzou, Jean Jansem, Galents, Minas Avetisyan, Vruyr Galstian, Ashot Hovhanissian (Deghdz Ashot,) Hagop Hagopian, Gayane Khachaturian, Emil Kazaz, Sam Zumian, Sarkis Hamalbashian, Vahe Berberian, Ruben Abovian, and others.

08/14/2026

Happy Birthday to our incredible Sofia Mooradian! Always dedicating herself in assisting to preserve, promote, and elevate Armenian art & culture to the public passionately.

Sofia Sarkisian

08/13/2026

Mooradian Gallery is proud to partner with 𝟑𝟎𝟏 𝐀𝐃® & the Armenian American Museum for the “Art After Dark” curated fundraising event held on Saturday, August 29th at the Vault (1411 Railroad Street. Glendale, CA. 91204) | 6:30pm

Join us on Saturday, August 29, at the Vault for Art After Dark, an exclusive fundraiser experience organized in partnership with the Armenian American Museum and 301 AD. Step inside a private members’ club where curated art, exotic cars, handcrafted cocktails, and an unforgettable atmosphere come together for one extraordinary evening - all in support of two nonprofit organizations dedicated to preserving, celebrating, and advancing Armenian art, culture, and community.

For tickets click on link below: 🎟️

https://armenianamericanmuseum.org/event/art-after-dark/

08/10/2026

Featured Artist Sam Zumian’s select work will be on exhibit during the “Art After Dark” curated art exhibition held on Saturday, August 29th at 6:30pm | The Vault (1411 Railroad St, Glendale CA, 91204).

The exhibition will raise funds in support of the Armenian American Museum & 𝟑𝟎𝟏 𝐀𝐃® Non-Profit Organizations.

Directed by Arthur Mooradian, the Mooradian Gallery is a 4,500-square-foot fine art space in Hollywood’s Little Armenia neighborhood. It houses the largest collection of Armenian fine art in the United States, showcasing over 100 historical, modern, and contemporary artists through museum-grade investment pieces, curated exhibitions, and specialized art publications.

Gallery Atmosphere & History:
Spans a massive 4,500-square-foot exhibition floor designed to highlight cultural heritage and memory. Showcases important cultural exhibitions, such as group showcases exploring identity and historical vision. Welcoming, community-centered environment for both serious collectors and casual art lovers.

Specialties & Services:

Houses the widest selection of diaspora and Armenian fine art in the US. Features works spanning the 19th through 21st centuries. Offers fine art available for direct purchase, ranging from high-end investments to smaller gifts.

Supplies curated art books, exhibition catalogs, and limited-edition prints.

Open Daily: 📆
Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

📍Location: 5211 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90027.

We are located in the heart of Little Armenia. Hollywood, CA.

Sam Zumian - artist

Sam Zumian 𝟑𝟎𝟏 𝐀𝐃® Armenian American Museum

08/07/2026

With Mooradian Gallery Featured Artist Sarkis Hamalbashian. The artist’s select work will be on exhibit during the “Art After Dark” curated art exhibition held on Saturday, August 29th at 6:30pm | The Vault (1411 Railroad St, Glendale CA, 91204).

Directed by Arthur Mooradian, the Mooradian Gallery is a 4,500-square-foot fine art space in Hollywood’s Little Armenia neighborhood. It houses the largest collection of Armenian fine art in the United States, showcasing over 100 historical, modern, and contemporary artists through museum-grade investment pieces, curated exhibitions, and specialized art publications.

Gallery Atmosphere & History:
Spans a massive 4,500-square-foot exhibition floor designed to highlight cultural heritage and memory. Showcases important cultural exhibitions, such as group showcases exploring identity and historical vision. Welcoming, community-centered environment for both serious collectors and casual art lovers.

Specialties & Services:

Houses the widest selection of diaspora and Armenian fine art in the US. Features works spanning the 19th through 21st centuries. Offers fine art available for direct purchase, ranging from high-end investments to smaller gifts.

Supplies curated art books, exhibition catalogs, and limited-edition prints.

Open Daily: 📆
Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

📍Location: 5211 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90027.

We are located in the heart of Little Armenia. Hollywood, CA.

Sarkis HAMALBASHIAN

08/06/2026

Paul Guiragossian (1926–1993) was a foundational Armenian-Lebanese modernist painter widely regarded as one of the most influential and celebrated artists to emerge from the Arab world in the 20th century. Born in Jerusalem to survivors of the Armenian Genocide, his life and artwork were profoundly shaped by experience of exile, displacement, and the complexities of the human condition. His signature style masterfully straddled the boundary between figuration and abstract expressionism, famously utilizing dense, vertical blocks of vibrant color to depict clustered human forms.

The Human Form: Guiragossian was a painter of “clustered people”. His compositions frequently feature elongated, statuesque figures huddled tightly together, embodying ideas of family, community solidarity, and shared suffering.

Byzantine & Western Influence: His simplified, featureless figures echo the structure of Byzantine and Christian icons, mixed with the emotional weight of European expressionists like Vincent van Gogh and Edvard Munch.

Color and Texture: He applied heavy, impasto blocks of paint—often relying heavily on yellow, his favorite color—while using untouched negative space to give his canvases unique movement, depth, and a rhythmic, musical quality.

Global LegacyGuiragossian received numerous accolades during his lifetime, including Lebanon’s prestigious Medal of the National Order of the Cedar. Today, his legacy is carefully researched and preserved by the Paul Guiragossian Foundation. His iconic masterpieces are sought after globally at institutions like Christie’s and feature prominently in major public collections.

For inquiries and purchasing please contact us at:
www.MooradianGallery.com

Open Daily: 📆
Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

📍Location: 5211 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90027.

We are located in the heart of Little Armenia. Hollywood, CA.

08/04/2026

Jean Carzou Original Watercolor Now on View at Mooradian Gallery!

Jean Carzou (1907–2000) was a highly celebrated French-Armenian artist, painter, and illustrator whose work spanned fine art, theatrical design, and literary illustration. Born Karnik Zouloumian in Aleppo, Syria, he formed his pseudonym from the first syllables of his birth name and surname.

Unique Style: His art is famous for a sharp contrast between rigorous geometric perspective and a complex, spiky tangle of lines. “In his work, there is a sharp contrast between a rigorous geometric perspective and the tangle of lines he uses to draw people and things.”

Literary Illustrations: Carzou created line drawings and engravings for monumental 20th-century writers. He illustrated Ernest Hemingway’s A Farewell to Arms and Albert Camus’s Notebooks.

Scenic Design: He created magnificent sets and costumes for the Paris Opéra and the Comédie-Française, including productions of Giselle and Roland Petit’s Le Loup.

Major Honors: A member of France’s Académie des Beaux-Arts, he was awarded the National Order of Merit. In 1976, he became the first living artist to have his artwork featured on an official French postage stamp.

Permanent Collections:
His pieces are preserved worldwide, with notable holdings at the Hermitage Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the dedicated Carzou Museum in Dinard, Brittany.

Pictured here:
Jean Carzou (1907-2000) | “Landscape” | Watercolor on Paper | 1972 | 50cm x 65cm

For inquiries and purchasing please contact us at:
www.MooradianGallery.com

Open Daily: 📆
Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

📍Location: 5211 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90027.

We are located in the heart of Little Armenia. Hollywood, CA.

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08/02/2026

Jansem’s (1920-2013) monumental published “La Femme Au Coq” (Detail) 1972 at Mooradian Gallery!

Jean Jansem (born Hovhannes Semerdjian in 1920) was a French-Armenian painter. He was widely known for his representational paintings of n**e women, still lifes, and figures. Jansem painted with a variety of media that included gouache, watercolor, ink, and oil in a stylized and textural aesthetic and was widely known for his . Jansem fled his home country and Greece in his early childhood, eventually settling in Paris, where he began to paint. Jansem’s artwork received critical attention throughout his career, garnering honors like induction into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1953, knighthood by the French Legion of Honour in 2003, and reception of a Medal of Honor from the President of Armenia in 2010. He passed away in Paris, France in 2013.

Pictured here:
Jean Jansem | “La Femme Au Coq” | Oil on Canvas | 1972 | 97cm x 146cm

Provenance: Featured in Jansem’s preface de Pierre Mazars book. #116. Wally Findlay Gallery label on verso.

Jean Jansem dit JANSEM Les Amis de Jean Jansem (1920-2013)

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07/30/2026

“Juggling Woman” is a historically significant 1965 masterwork by the renowned Soviet-Armenian artist Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan. It is widely recognized as one of his most iconic and representative oil-on-linen paintings. (Permanent Collection of Mooradian Gallery).

Throughout his career, Bazhbeuk-Melikyan was celebrated for his dynamic and sensual depictions of the female figure. He was deeply fascinated by theatrical, romantic, and performance themes, frequently painting magicians, acrobats, n**es, and exotically costumed women. Juggling Woman captures this signature focus, blending rhythmic motion with a rich, expressive color palette characteristic of late-career Armenian Modernism.

The painting holds a special place in the preservation of the artist’s legacy. It was acquired directly by Mooradian Gallery from his daughter, the prominent artist Lavinia Bazhbeuk-Melikyan. The funds raised from its acquisition were specifically utilized to publish the very first major hardbound monograph dedicated to Alexander Bazhbeuk-Melikyan’s life and work, authored by art historian Henrik Igityan.
(Permanent Collection of Mooradian Gallery).

07/27/2026

“Forest Love” by Emil Kazaz (b.1953) is a prominent, surrealist sculpture created by the renowned Armenian-American artist Emil Kazaz.

The piece embodies Kazaz’s signature figurative and fantastical style. His works typically reject standard Soviet Realism in favor of exaggerated, bulbous human or mythical figures entangled with flora, fauna, and dreamlike elements. Themes of romance and the natural world are recurring anchors throughout his portfolio.

Emil Kazaz (born January 14, 1953, in Gyumri, Armenia) is a highly acclaimed Armenian-American figurative sculptor and painter known for his surreal, mythological, and emotion-laden artwork. Operating out of his Los Angeles studio and gallery, his works blend traditional European Renaissance and Baroque techniques with fantastical, bulbous character designs—a distinct aesthetic frequently referred to as “Kazaz-Land”.

Notable Works & Accolades

Kazaz is one of the few contemporary creators recognized internationally as a master of both cast-bronze sculpture and oil painting.

He has won multiple prestigious awards at the Florence Biennale (Italy), including five sculpture gold medals, the Lorenzo Medici Medal in 2003, and the Grande Lorenzo il Magnifico prize in 2007 and 2009.

Kazaz’s artwork is deeply rooted in human anatomy, color theory, and traditional draftsmanship. However, his figures are often exaggerated and placed in highly dramatic, stage-like environments. His mixed-media drawings, bronze sculptures, and paintings incorporate Christian motifs, elements of the theater, and surrealist references.

Pictured here:
Emil Kazaz | “Forest Love” | Bronze | 2004 | 35” x 29” x 20”

Open Daily: 📆
Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

📍Location: 5211 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90027.

We are located in the heart of Little Armenia. Hollywood, CA.

07/25/2026

“Sailboat” (Detail) by Sarkis Hamalbashian is a dynamic marine interpretation that showcases various aspects of the vast sea. Swimmers, fishers, and row boats that all come together seamlessly to show the beauty of a neverending world, a world of true storytelling and color.

Sarkis Hamalbashian (born January 12, 1956) is a prominent contemporary Armenian artist based in Yerevan. Known for challenging Soviet artistic norms in the 1980s, he has emerged as a leading figure in post-Soviet Armenian art.

Artistic Style
Hamalbashian’s work is characterized by a distinctive blend of historical and modern influences:

Cultural Fusion: His paintings integrate elements of early Italian Renaissance, Russian iconography, and Armenian miniature painting.

Themes: Common subjects include still lifes, urban scenes, and narratives of abundance and emotion, such as his “History of the Eternal Now” series.

Honors: He holds the title of Honorable Artist of the Republic of Armenia (awarded in 2009).

Exhibitions: His work has been exhibited globally, including solo shows in London, Los Angeles, Paris, and Basel. Recently, a solo exhibition was held at Mooradian Gallery in Los Angeles (November–December 2024).

Collections: His paintings are held in the Modern Art Museum of Armenia, the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, and various international private collections.

Open Daily: 📆
Monday-Saturday: 10am-5pm
Sunday: Closed

📍Location: 5211 W. Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles, CA. 90027.

We are located in the heart of Little Armenia. Hollywood, CA.

Visit our gallery today to view this significant contemporary work by a leading visionary artist of our time.

Sarkis HAMALBASHIAN

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5211 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA
90027

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 5pm
Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+13234867888

Website

http://www.MooradianGallery.com/

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