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An 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 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 art is a practice of free ideology. That is where for me the strength of art lies. I feel Antoine Gaudi's work epitomizes 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. Art is an element that must be continuously debated upon conceptually and technically in depth until one may create a medium of his own. I believe the subject of Contemporary Art is an analogy to the subject of truth and dare. To my understanding Art is an element that is absorbed subconsciously as much as consciously. Art involves the process 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 I was 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. I have exhibited in several cities in the east coast of the United States, along with an ongoing exhibition at the Pleiades Gallery, New York City. I have participated in Juried competitions under Jurors as Lisa Dennison as Deputy Director and Chief Curator of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Susan Masuoka, Director of Aidekman Arts Center Tufts University, Dana Miller Assistant Curator, Whitney Museum, Dr. Andrea Spaulding Norris, at the Lousiana State University , Anne Rocheleau, Director of the Rhode Island Foundation Gallery, and David Kiehl Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. My work as it has matured through time, which has only been recent; I began to realize the profound importance of putting aside all that I have learned. Hence, bringing me to accept all visual expressions in society. Thus it is only now in my most recent years that I have been able to perceive a direction and a focus on this journey of realization. I believe art is an ongoing thing, a process that will emerge with the influences of many artisans, which has enabled me to pursue my goals and helped me decide what my ultimate profession is in art. . Now living in the West Coast I have been successful for selling art and exhibiting in numerous occasions at the SDAI San Diego Art Institute of the Living Artist, Del Mar Art Center, Unitarian Church of Hillcrest, also stores in San Diego and most notably now the Fine Art Festival III and IV sponsored by San Diego Museum of Art and the two month exhibition starting in January 5th through to March 1st 2008 at the San Diego Hospice and Palliative Care . My most recent job I have is working at Sea World as a Letter Brush Artist using the theme of sea creatures at Sea World.
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