Yakov Hanansen

category: Visual,

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Artist Statement

Yakov Hanansen has been working on broad range of commissions for public and private spaces for over 30 years. Most recent works include the following projects: a mosaic fabrication for the lobby at 529 Fifth Ave, New York; mosaic for the lobby at 1430 Broadway, New York; mosaic for D.Faber Cancer Institute, Boston; mosaic for Hazlet Railroad Station, NJ. Yakov received his BFA from School of Applied Arts in Kaunas, Lithuania in 1968, and his MFA from School of Art at the Moscow Textile Institute in 1973. He has received numerous artist achievement awards. He currently owns and operates Unicorn Art Studio which specializes in mosaic making. Yakov Hanansen has exhibited his works in the United States, Bulgaria,  Lithuania, Russia,  and Israel.

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