The work of Los Angeles based painter, Gegam Kacherian, is currently on view at the Lancaster Musuem in “Elements of Nature: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation” from June 5-August 29, 2010. The works in the exhibition reveal the ability of art to interpret, replicate, and reimagine the natural world. Some artists authentically depict the ephemeral beauty of the landscape, while others draw from nature to create their own fantasy environments. The show will later travel to the New Orleans Museum.
Kacherian, featured in Stremmel’s “Perspectives 2010″, has nine works in the permanent collection of MOCA in Thailand and six pieces in the permanent collection of MOCA in Armenia. Future exhibitions include Andrew Shrie Gallery, Singapore and Kyung Eun Lee’s Gallery and Art Link Gallery, Seoul Korea.
“My blend of abstract and representational images can be seen as a metaphor for the relationship between the spiritual and physical worlds. My painting process begins with a meditation on color and the creation of a “groundless” background that suggests an empty universe. From there, familiar shapes emerge—a bird, a house—and enter into shifting, dreamlike relationships with each other and with the viewer, revealing the known world in the context of the greater, always mysterious, unknown. Inheriting from the surrealist tradition, the paintings position themselves in the contemporary search for new modes of expression after 20th century abstraction.” – Gegam Kacherian
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