Paul Sarkisian, Large Assemblage Collage Monotype California Art From Styria Studios

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Framed in a shadow box. size includes frame. Paul Sarkisian (1928-) is an American artist who made significant contributions during … Read more Framed in a shadow box. size includes frame. Paul Sarkisian (1928-) is an American artist who made significant contributions during the growth of contemporary art in Los Angeles, then later gained international recognition as a leading photorealist painter.
Sarkisian’s work has been exhibited in many of the world's most important museums and public venues, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, DOCUMENTA, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The Carnegie Institute, The Chicago Arts Club, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Smithsonian Institution... and many others.

Sarkisian was among the few artists to exhibit in all major venues overseen by pioneering curator Walter Hopps during his seminal Los Angeles period. These include The Syndell Studio in 1954, Action Painting 1 (Merry-Go-Round-Show) in 1955, Action Painting 2 (Action Squared) in 1956, The Ferus Gallery in 1957 and The Pasadena Art Museum in 1961, 63 and 68.

Sarkisian’s work has undergone numerous and sweeping stylistic changes, from the Abstract Expressionist canvases he exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in the 1950's, to the vivid surrealistic nudes he produced in the 1960's, to trompe l’oeil and minimalist paintings of the 1980's and 90's. In 1969 he began work on a series of Photorealist paintings depicting full-scale storefront and house facades. These monumental black-and-white canvases helped to establish Sarkisian's reputation as a leading New-Realist painter during the movement's heyday in the 1970's and 80’s. Throughout this period Sarkisian often exhibited with a core group of painters associated with the era, such as Chuck Close, Ralph Goings and Richard Estes. In the 1990’s Sarkisian changed style once again to produce large-scale structural paintings incorporating shaped panels, tinted resin and industrial enamel.
"Yellow, Executed at Anderson Ranch with Peter Catanzaro" This piece was executed with Styria Studio during the 1980s and bears the hallmarks of the bright colors of that period seen in the works of Ettore Sottsass, Peter Shire and the Memphis Milano artists. ,Styria was a NY printer working with the finest artists. Lee Bontecou, John Chamberlain, Jim Dine, Mark di Suvero, Dan Flavin, Red Grooms, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Nam June Paik, Robert Rauschenberg, Larry Rivers, James Rosenquist, George Segal, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Richard Stankiewicz, Cy Twombly, Andy Warhol, and Robert Whitman.

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Aachen Museum, Germany
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Atlantic Richfield Company, Los Angeles, CA
Brandeis University Art Museum MA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna Austria
Pacific Enterprise Corp., Los Angeles, CA
Pasadena Art Museum, CA
Philip Morris Inc., NY See less