About Shushanik Karapetyan
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Event: Land Sea Sky
Dates: 11 Jan 2025 - 22 Feb 2025
"Land Sea Sky" is a collection of paintings with organic motifs. These paintings grew out of the simple exercise of exploring the different marks a brush can make. Following my curiosity, I noticed that at some point, I was using the filbert brush and making repetitive similar strokes that looked like a school of fish or petals. This experience ultimately evolved into the paintings in this collection, some of which are more structured than others, all of them using some iteration of a repetitive brush stroke that feels meditative in the moment. The choice of colors is sometimes premeditated but more often is made in the moment as I work on a painting. As I paint in this style, I often feel calm and immersed in a flow of colors.Through these works, I invite viewers to find their own sense of calm and connection to nature’s patterns. The interplay of shapes and colors is meant to evoke a meditative experience, encouraging personal reflection.
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Event: PAINTINGS ON THE SUNNYSIDE
Dates: 24 Oct 2024 - 10 Nov 2024
Paintings on the sunNYside
A Solo Show by Shushanik Karapetyan
Curated by Raluca Anchidin
Opening reception: THURSDAY, Oct 24, 5-9pm
On view: Oct 24 - Nov 10, 2024
Vital Art Studios Gallery, 50-14 Skillman Ave, NY 11377
Biography
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Shushanik Karapetyan is a New York based artist. Her work has been showcased at the Irish Arts Center, Governors Island, BRIC, Hovnanian School, La Bodega Gallery, and various group exhibitions at LIC Arts Open. Her art has appeared in numerous publications including Driftwood Press, HyeBred, Storm Cellar, and The Sonder Review.
Born in Yerevan, Armenia, Shushanik Karapetyan is a New York based artist. Her work has been showcased at the National Association of Women Artists, Governors Island, BRIC, La Bodega Gallery, LIC Arts Open, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, and Art Mums United.
Shushanik's paintings are informed by her work as a gestalt psychotherapist, placing significance on the present moment, being attuned to both internal processes and external influences as she works on a piece. While paintings begin with some form of structure (i.e. a seascape or a landscape), this structure is tentative and flexible and is often guided by moment-to-moment decisions, whether it’s the choice of brush, color, texture, or movement in the painting. There is often a repetitive piece to her work such as pointillist strokes with a filbert brush or sweeping long strokes with a flat brush.
She is inspired by Georgia O’Keeffe, often communicating femininity, sensuality and organic motifs, as well as impressionist artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet, tapping into the ability of the human eye to blend points of colors on their own.
