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Paul Sarkisian

Paul Sarkisian (Born 1928) is active/lives in New Mexico, Illinois.  Paul Sarkisian is known for Large-scale abstract painting, photo realism, wall sculpture.

Following is a Site Santa Fe exhibition review of work by Paul Sarkisian, May 28, 2005.

Paul Sarkisian has worked in numerous styles and media throughout his long career as a painter. This exhibition will be a survey of the last ten years and feature more than twenty large-scale and monumental pieces, as well as one of the artist's well-known storefront paintings. This historical work is an immense, wall-sized painting called Untitled (El Paso) (1971-72). This monochromatic façade of an existing structure the artist encountered during his travels across the United States offers a meticulous rendering of the architecture of the building. Yet the artist has added exquisite details, recollected from memory and culled from his imagination, of objects and reflections seen in the interiors.

From this captivating example of his prowess in the photo-realist style, Sarkisian moved through several stylistic changes in his painting to a   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3276 characters.]  Artist bio

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Following is a Site Santa Fe exhibition review of work by Paul Sarkisian, May 28, 2005.

Paul Sarkisian has worked in numerous styles and media throughout his long career as a painter. This exhibition will be a survey of the last ten years and feature more than twenty large-scale and monumental pieces, as well as one of the artist's well-known storefront paintings. This historical work is an immense, wall-sized painting called Untitled (El Paso) (1971-72). This monochromatic façade of an existing structure the artist encountered during his travels across the United States offers a meticulous rendering of the architecture of the building. Yet the artist has added exquisite details, recollected from   ...  Displaying 750 of 3276 characters.

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