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. The images are a combination of family and historical photos. They are placed next to each other 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 to this day through a timeless passing down to the next generation from survivors to children through protective silences, secrets, anger, and terrifying nightmares.
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" involving a complicated layering system of "ghosts", stencils, and aluminum foil printings that create an amazing sense of unfathomable depth and aquatic translucency and beauty. On an imaginative and metaphoric level it expresses the allusive psychic world of the unconscious place that lives deep within the very being of our souls.
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 medium is a seldom utilized paper-litho. The image is based on a photo taken of the artist's father seated in his upholstered chair after a warm ethnic dinner.