Garo Antreasian Armenian-American, 1922-2018
Garo Antreasian (1922 – 2018) was an American printmaker and educator as well as a co-founder of the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in Los Angeles, California.
Committed to a geometric formal language since the mid-1960s, Antreasian spoke that language idiosyncratically, in a rich, modulated voice. Although his compositions can be forthright and simple, they never confront the eye with minimalist austerity. Rather, they brim with lovingly fashioned and rhythmically repeated detail. The works Antreasian fashioned from inlaid laminated wood reflect upon the exquisite craftsmanship of his sources, divorcing them from their functional origin. Similarly, his many works reliant on script - Arabic, Armenian, Latin - free line and contour from the rigors of verbal communication, allowing various alphabets to run free in a neo-Futurist “parole in libertà."
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Multifaceted
Exploring the Bandwidth 16 Oct - 20 Nov 2021Tufenkian Fine Arts is pleased to present, Multifaceted, a two-part show featuring artworks by twelve contemporary artists co-curated between John David O’Brien and Caroline Tufenkian in the downstairs gallery space...Read more -
Tribute: Works on Paper
20 Nov - 23 Dec 2020Tufenkian Fine Arts is pleased to present Tribute: Works on Paper, a group exhibition including works by Garo Antreasian, Hagop Hagopian, Varujan Boghosian, and Reuben Nakian. The exhibition will be...Read more