Sculptor Ushangi Kumelashvili Info

"My inspiration is nature."

"My work is an ongoing study of the dynamic relationship between form and emotion."

Ushangi is an internationally known artist/sculptor working primarily in stone. Ushangi’s work is highly recognizable for its unique artistry and style, which stem from his inner vision and his immersion in the culture of his native Georgia and other ethnic cultures of the former Soviet Union.

His lifelong devotion to his art began at age 9, with his first stone sculpture, which was completed at age 11. His first award in competition came at age 13. In 1981 he was brought to Moscow as a sculptor for the Russian Department of Monuments. During this period, he was also Master/Teacher at the Moscow Studio of Fine Arts.

Ushangi is a 1968 Graduate of the State Art School, Tbilisi, Georgia and a 1972 Graduate of the Georgian National College of the Arts.

Since immigrating to the United States, Ushangi’s work has been exhibited and commissioned in Washington D.C., the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, Sierra Foothills and Los Angeles, where he now resides.

SELECTED AWARDS

1994 Top bid; The Chase Foundation/Director’s Guild, Los Angeles, "Mother and Child"
1981 First place, all USSR competition, memorial monument to Tsiolkovski, Soviet space scientist
1973 Moscow Art Fund Award
1971 Union of Georgian Artists Award
1970 Young Georgians Award

SELECTED COMMISSIONS

1994 Lexi International convention booth, Anaheim, California, first prize
1995 Lexi International convention booth, Long Beach, California, first prize
1991 Nicolo Paganini, marble, private collector, Hollywood
1991 Omar Khayyam, marble, private collector, Hollywood
1990 Marble fountain, residence, Beverly Hills

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Johnson Art Collection, Los Angeles, CA, September 2006
Paneala Gallery, Carmel, CA, August 2006
Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles, CA, September 2005
Russian American Fine Arts Exhibition, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA, November 2004
Canapo Galleries, Carmel, CA, July 2003
Bradford Campbell Gallery, San Francisco, CA June 2001
Main Street Gallery, Murphys, CA, 2000
Ironstone Gallery, Murphys, CA, 1999
Carol Garsten Gallery, Palo Alto, CA, November 1997
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, July - September 1996
Gallery M, Fresno, CA, October 1995
Left Bank Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA, September 1995
The Director’s Guild, Los Angeles, CA, April 1995
Affaire in the Gardens, Beverly Hills, CA, May 1994; October 1993
Beverly Hills Public Library, Beverly Hills, CA, March 1993
LA Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, June 1992