Generation after Generation, Revolution after Revelation
LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
January 29 - March 20, 2010

This suite of ten paintings circulate a range of themes — decoration, ritual, politics, spirituality — that the artist has developed in previous bodies of work. Extending Aramʼs interests in a visual and stylistic language that references religious and nationalistic iconography, Generation After Generation, Revolution After Revelation sets up a series of painterly propositions that come together to evoke a ceremonial space. While the paintings vary in texture and gestural application, the largely unfinished canvases seek to dismantle dominant modes of image-making and the general coherence that images and paintings rely upon.