Ana Bagayan was born in Armenia and moved to California when she was a little girl, she "frolicked among trees and dancing bears" before completing a degree in Fine Art at Art Centre College of Design in Pasadena. There, she honed her amazing gift for creating beautiful, porcelain-skinned characters who have some seriously sinister under currents and some slimy, gory friends.
Her artworks bounce from little girls having animals burst from their bodies (a la
Aliens) to children with bugs covering their naked bodies. Her chopped-in-half deer is called
Unexpecting and only when you notice that will you notice the tiny, pale, dead baby lying beneath it. Morbid? Definitely. Fascinating? No doubt. Beautiful? In a creepy way, entirely.