ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXHIBIT 2005
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXHIBIT 2005
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXHIBIT 2005
This monoprint (in background) exemplifies how far the use of paper-litho as a printmaking method has progressed in transferring photo images to paper. Genocide Hangings 2, above, is from a large scale series of work that was included in a one-person show called: LEST WE FORGET held at the Providence College, Hunt-Cavanagh Gallery in 2005. This powerful image of inhumanity was taken from a 1915 historical photo of a public hanging. It was digitally stylized, enlarged, cut into nine sections, inked as plates and then printed on BFK paper in a seamless undertaking. The small text of approximately 50-towns and cities were printed later.
FAMILY BIOGRAPHY EXHIBIT 2014
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXHIBIT 2005
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXHIBIT 2005
The above monoprint is from FAMILY BIOGRAPHY series exhibited at the Attleboro Arts Museum. Previously FAMILY BIO 30 (not in photo) received Best of Show Award. These prints are a combination of family and historical photos. They were conceived to be spread out in an expansive horizontal format reminiscent of an ongoing epic of time beginning with genocidal horror more than 100 years ago. The aftermath of the 1915 Armenian Genocide continues through a timeless passing on to the next generation their legacy and history through protective silences, stories, secrets, anger, andnightmares.
PAINT & CLAY CLUB EXHIBIT 2017
ARMENIAN GENOCIDE EXHIBIT 2005
MGNE - Fifth National Juried Exhibit 2018
This monotype/monoprint combination, CUPID ENTERS THE RUINS, was selected by Samuel Quigley, Director of the Lyman Allyn Art Museum for the 2017 National Exhibition of the New Haven Paint and Clay Club, New Haven, CT. This print is from a large group of experimental abstract prints using a variety of materials and tools. During this period figurative subjects were introduced into abstract settings as an integrative challenge —thus Cupid appears in this print— full of love, daring to enter a strange world of manifest ruins in hope of bringing some semblance of love for those devastated even if it's for a brief passing of time.
MGNE - Fifth National Juried Exhibit 2018
120th Paint & Clay Club Juried Art Exhibition 2021
MGNE - Fifth National Juried Exhibit 2018
PORTRAIT OF INNOCENCE received Honorable Mention by Prof. Judith Brodsky, Rutgers University at the Duxbury Art Complex. This large scale provocative monoprint of innocence and mass murder is seamed together in a 9-part bleed monoprint printed on 42" h x 31" w BFK gray paper. The image depicts a naked toddler sitting cross-legged on a chair in a photo studio, unaware that in the background lies a heap of naked dead male Armenian male bodies flanked by Turkish soldiers based on a photo taken during Genocide of 1915.
The 10th Blanche Ames National Art Exhibit 2012
120th Paint & Clay Club Juried Art Exhibition 2021
120th Paint & Clay Club Juried Art Exhibition 2021
This multilayered monoprint ACQUATIC UNIVERSE was awarded First Place by juror Christine Neil, Professor of Painting and Drawing, College of Art, Baltimore, MD. It is from Avakian's "experimental series" explores a complicated layering system of "ghosts", stencils, aluminum foil printings, and colors that reflect an amazing sense of unfathomable depth, aquatic translucence, and awesome beauty. On an psyhological level it expresses the allusive psychic world of the unconscious where memories and suppressed experiences live within the very being dept of the soul. Discovery remains the last hope for salvation and spiritual unity.
120th Paint & Clay Club Juried Art Exhibition 2021
120th Paint & Clay Club Juried Art Exhibition 2021
120th Paint & Clay Club Juried Art Exhibition 2021
AN IMMIGRANTS SONG GOES UNHEARD was selected by the Judge of selection and Awards: Hollis Dunlap award winning CT. artist. It received the Weiss Sisters Prize for a Print and was included in the permanent collection of the NHP&CC. The print medium is unique and seldom utilized in such a distinguished way. The image is based on a photo taken of the artist's father seated in a upholstered chair after a hard days work and a warm evening dinner.