PETER FRANK: ARTHUR SARKISSIAN’S PAINTINGS "TALK" TO US IN SEVERAL VISUAL LANGUAGES AT ONCE

PanARMENIAN.Net
04.03.2010 18:34 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Arthur Sarkissian’s exhibition is a rare opportunity
to view many of the famed artist’s finest works at the 1927 Gallery in
The Fine Arts Building in downtown Los Angeles. The opening reception
will be held on March 11th from 5:30 to 9:00, in connection with
the Downtown Art Walk. The exhibition will remain on display through
April 2nd.

Sarkissian’s works point to the past and bridge a gap between the then
and now, the past and present. He juxtaposes old photographs, letters,
and pictures with vivid colors and metaphors of our present times. His
works are culturally and historically saturated. His process includes
several layers of silkscreen, brush strokes, and spatula applied paint.

Peter Frank expressed in Sarkissian’s 2006 catalogue: "Above all,
Sarkissian’s is an art of transition, a demonstration of the flow
of human experience from the felt to the known, from the intuited
to the studied, and back again. Sarkissian’s paintings are at once
wholes and sums of parts, and they "talk" to us in several visual
languages at once."

Born in 1960 in Gyumri, Armenia, Arthur Sarkissian attended the
School of Fine Arts in his native city, followed by the Armenian
Pedagogical University (Drawing Department) in 1989. He lives and
works in Yerevan, Armenia.

Sarkissian works in abstract art as a statement of post-soviet freedom
of expression. His canvases combine painting and silkscreen printing,
incorporating text, photographs, signs, architectural images and
extracts from other paintings, fusing oil paint with found ephemera.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress