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An Artist Statement for Shant Beudjekian

explaining the applicants goals and interest

I have always had a drive to pursue art as a profession; my influences and inspirations are dependent on artists such as Willem de Kooning, Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, the chaotic linear brush strokes of jackson Pollock, and the unexpected and bold visual definitions of Pablo Picasso. I believe I have the tendency to view art as a process that enables me to extricate myself from all boundaries. 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 through vigilance a medium of his own. I believe the subject of Contemporary Art is an analogy to the subject of truth and dare.
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 conducting for the right moment a contortion, on surfaces that ascend at times to misleading and reprehensible form of communication.
My interest in art as a love and passion in its earlier stages was inspired by the traditional works of Italian artists of the Renaissance. Hence, to me art is a device that enables me to percieve and simultaneously enhance my state of well being. The two integral qualities that were investigated at Otis College of Art and Design 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 on the subject of Landscape Architecture. Morever, I have been painting seriously for the past four years as my work began to mature continuously with several appreciative acceptances from curators and Gallery Directors in the East Coast. I have exhibited in several cities on the east coast of United States, along with an ongoing exhibition at the Horton Gallery ,Philadelphia. 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 in New york. My work as it has matured through time, which has only been recent, I began to realize the profound importance of putting aside all that I have learned. Hence, bringing me to accept all visual expressions in society. Thus it is only now in my most recent years that I have been able to percieve a direction and a focus on this journey of realization.
Hence, I believe that art is an ongoing thing, a process that will emerge with the influences of many artisans, which would enable me to pursue my goals and help me decide what my ultimate profession would be in art.

Landscape Painting of La Jolla , San Deigo

2006
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