Author: Lizzy Vartanian Collier

Lizzy Vartanian Collier aka Gallery Girl is a writer and curator based in London. Her work has been featured in publications including Dazed, Hyperallergic and Vogue Arabia. She was curator of Perpetual Movement during AWAN Festival 2018 and in 2019 had a residency at the Lab at Darat Al Funun in Amman, Jordan. She has also worked with Armenia Art Fair for its inaugural edition and previously worked as an editor at I.B.Tauris Publishers. In 2019 she co-founded Arsheef, Yemen’s first contemporary art gallery. She has given workshops at Manara Culture in Amman, Jordan and Victoria and Albert Museum in London, UK. As of 2020 she is currently in law school, with the ambition of greater understanding the intersection between art and the law.

Frieze & Frieze Masters @ Regents Park

October 14, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

In the past five days i have been to six exhibitions and four art fairs. It is safe to say that the quiet Summer season is over and the London art scene has reached its peak this Frieze Week. This year was my first at Frieze and I must admit I found it a little […]

Rothko & Sugimoto @ Pace

October 9, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

For its inaugural exhibition at its second London location at Burlington Gardens, New York gallery Pace opens with Mark Rothko and Hiroshi Sugimoto. The gallery space which has previously been occupied by Haunch of Venison and is neighbour to the Royal Academy has been renovated by Sir David Chipperfield. The predominantly dark show is the […]

Ballgowns @ V&A

October 4, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

This year has been full of fashion exhibitions and the Victoria & Albert Museum has long been one of the best to hold displays in the field of fashion. Right now the show on everyone’s lips is ‘Ballgowns: British Glamour Since 1950’, a luxurious treat for the fashion connoisseur. The exhibition, which comprises of 60 […]

Twombly @ Gagosian, Britannia Street

September 28, 2012.Reading time 3 minutes.

When I started writing about art last year it was after having visited the glorious Cy Twombly and Nicolas Poussin exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery. I had never even heard of Twombly before but I was infatuated with his work and a year on my love affair with his art continues. The Gagosian Gallery has […]

Balenciaga & Comme Des Garçons @ Les Docks en Seine, Paris

September 11, 2012.Reading time 2 minutes.

While in Paris I was also fortunate enough to see two contrasting fashion exhibitions at the docks inside a wonderful building on the river. The pieces on show were from the designers Cristobal Balenciaga and Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garçons. The two shows were particularly striking in that despite standing side by side, they […]