Shant Beudjekian
Bold and energetic abstract expressions in oil; Ceramics and more
San Diego California

Shant's Personal Statement

Artist Statement of Shant Beudjekian

I have always had a drive to pursue art as a profession; my influences and inspirations are dependent on artists such as Willem de Kooning, Chuck Close, Lucian Freud, the chaotic linear brush strokes of Jackson Pollock, and the unexpected and bold visual definitions of Pablo Picasso. I believe I have the tendency to view art as a process that enables me to extricate myself from all boundaries. I am very fond of Antoine Gaudi and Picasso and the genre of dynamism that is evident in the works of Boccioni and Jean Dubuffet. The influential sculptures of Jean Dubuffet who analyzes form within form while creating planes through space is mainly the purpose of why I feel the practice of my art is a practice of free ideology. Free ideology is where for me the strength of my creations in the subject of Fine art is inclined. The upbringing of the influential concepts mentioned by individual artist's predominantly in this and prior century epitomize the subject of art and architecture in the sense that one may create only through diligence the true beautification of art.

Art I believe is an endorsement attempted by individuals who contradict reality in a confined form of space. My Art is an element that must be continuously debated upon conceptually and technically, until, I may be able to create an original medium of genre of Art. I believe the subject of Contemporary Art is an analogy to the subject of truth and dare. To my understanding, my artwork is an element that is absorbed subconsciously as much as consciously. In my paintings there are variety of outcomes in the results that I bring to completion but I feel that I have an attachment to the concept of deconstructing and reselecting visual images, almost as if conducting for the right moment a contortion, on surfaces that ascend at times to various forms of communication.

To me art is a device that enables me to perceive and simultaneously enhance my state of well-being. The two integral qualities that were investigated at Otis College of Art and Design were of form and space, as they became repetitively dealt with while apprenticing for artists. Nevertheless, I also, fulfilled an internship for one year at Rhode Island School of Design in Landscape Architecture. I have attended The Art Students League of New York for 3 years and the National Academy of Design for 2 years, while completing paintings that entailed to the subject of Pop Art, Abstract Expressionism, Cubism, Portrait and Landscape Paintings, while living in New York. Moreover, I have been painting seriously for the past four years as my work began to mature continuously with several appreciative commentaries from curators and Gallery Directors in the East Coast.