2010
Generation after Generation, Revolution after Revelation
January 29 - March 20, 2010
LA><ART, Los Angeles, CA
Excerpt from press release:
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.
The installation of paintings that make up Generation After Generation, Revolution After Revelation address questions related to the social, political, and cultural relevance of abstraction. Relying on decorative motifs and emblematic iconographies, the works in the exhibition represent distinct approaches to the construction of images through abstraction. Aram approaches the concerns that have remained consistent throughout the history of recent painting by offering a series of proposals for the artistic potentials for both revolution and revelation.
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