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[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Michael Ananian joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG) in 1994, and now serves as a tenured Associate Professor of Painting in the Department of Art.The Weaver Foundation Art Collection includes artwork by a long list of students who have studied with Ananian through the years; Katie Davis, Kathleen Ward, Erik Strom, Scott Raynor, Janet Oliver, J. Adam McGalliard, Justin Life, Robert Igoe, Patrick Leger, Brian Shaw, Nathaniel Underwood, and Chi-Kit Wong. Ananian creates bodies of work in figurative, sequential narratives, many times casting himself, or aspects of himself, as the main characters.\u00a0Wax and Wane<\/strong>\u00a0is part of a \u201csuite\u201d based on the theme of twins. With Ananian\u2019s arrival at UNCG, he developed interest in the narrative implications of pairs, dualism and opposition.\u00a0Wax and Wane<\/strong>\u00a0is from the twin series which he painted between 1996-1998. Ananian won numerous awards, including his two-time award from the prestigious John Koch Prize for the Best Figurative Painter under the Age of Thirty-five, from the National Academy of Design in New York.\u00a0Weaver Foundation Collection of UNCG Artists<\/a>[\/vc_column_text]