Shant's Personal Statement
Artist Statement of Shant Beudjekian
I have always seeked to acquire art as a profession; my influences and inspirations are dependent on artists such as Willem de Kooning, Vincent Van gogh, the tranquility of Claude Monet, Lucian Freud, and the unexpected bold visual definitions of Pablo Picasso. I have the tendency to view art as a process that enables me to free myself from all sociological boundaries. I am very fond of Antoine Gaudi and Picasso and the genre of dynamism that is evident in the works of Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet. The sculptures of Jean Dubuffet who analyzes form within form while creating planes through space is mainly the purpose of why I feel the practice of art is a practice of free ideology. The strength of art I believe in Antoine Gaudi's work epitomizes the subject of art and architecture in the sense that one may create only through diligence the true beautification of art.
Art I believe is an endorsement attempted by individuals who contradict reality in a confined form of space. Art is an element that must be continuously debated upon conceptually and technically in depth until one may create a medium of his own. I believe the subject of Contemporary Art is an analogy to the subject of truth and daring. To my understanding Art is an element that is absorbed subconsciously as much as consciously. Art involves the process of deconstructing and reselecting visual images, almost as if seeking to attain a mind set to progress oneself with the rest of the world.
I believe the element of inducing oneself with creativity in the midst of viewing a Painting can enrich the lives of others in its representation. Hence, the genre of figurative Painting accomplished at the National Academy of Design in New York City enabled me to explore and discover the feminine physicality as a source for painting from a subject matter through gesture and most importantly the values, and chromes of color.
The two integral qualities that were investigated at Otis College of Art and Design while attaining my Bachelors of Fine arts were of form and space as they became repetitively dealt with while apprenticing for artists. Nevertheless, I also, fulfilled an internship for one year at Rhode Island School of Design in Landscape Architecture. I have attended The Art Students League of New York for 3 years and the National Academy of Design for 2 years, while I was living in New York. Moreover, I have been painting seriously for the past four years as my work began to mature continuously with several appreciative commentaries from curators and Gallery Directors in the East Coast. I have exhibited in several cities in the east coast of the United States, along with an ongoing exhibition at the Pleiades Gallery, New York City. I have participated in Juried competitions under Jurors as Lisa Dennison as Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Susan Masuoka, Director of Aidekman Arts Center Tufts University, Dana Miller Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum, Dr. Andrea Spaulding Norris, at the Lousiana State University , Anne Rocheleau, Director of the Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, and David Kiehl Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. My work as it has matured through time; I began to realize the profound importance of selectively accepting all visual expressions in society. Thus it is only now in my most recent years that I have been able to perceive a direction and a focus on this journey of realization. I believe art is an ongoing thing, a process that will emerge with the influences of many artisans, which has enabled me to pursue my goals and helped me decide what my ultimate profession is in art.
Now living in the West Coast I have been successful for selling art and exhibiting in numerous occasions at the SDAI San Diego Art Institute of the Living Artist, Del Mar Art Center, Unitarian Church of Hillcrest, San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care and stores and shops in San Diego. Hence, I have attained honorable mentions and awards from various juried competitions as Bonita Museum, North Park Festival and La jolla Art Association, while simultaneously working as a full time artist at Sea World. I Have won three first place prize awards, one from the La Jolla Art Association regional juried art show, The North Park Art Festival and Escondido Municipal Art Gallery Exhibition titled " The Art Riot".
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