Выставка Чарльза Гарабедяна

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Charles Garabedian's paintings were exhibited

at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York.

At the Betty Cunningham Gallery in New York City, not far from the Offices of The Associated Press, the eight paintings exhibited by Charles Garabedian gave you a new look at life, with one of his work The Spring For Which I Longed-2001-2004 measuring 144 x 288 inches (3.65 x 7.31 meters) and yet another, September Song 156 x 300 inches (3.96 x 7.62 meters).

Huge but lovely and exiting colors for the eyes to be filled with pleasure. Of the two giant works, the more compelling is "September Song", 2001-2004, Acrylic on canvas--a male nude lies dreaming in a coffinlike boat. The other canvas, "The Spring for which I longed", also Acrylic on Canvas, is more tumultuous, packed with Garabedian style imagery. The sea dominates this tsunami-like wave topped with an eye. Then come the smaller works. The Garden, The Eunuch, Danae, the Alabama and the Kearsage, Mythical Beast and Stanely in the Silk Road are a treat to all.

I should have told you about these before. I regret that you missed this lovely collection.

Photo shows charles Garabedian's painting 'September Song' which was exhibited at the Betty Cuningham Gallery in New York.

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Born in Detroit, Garabedian moved to California as a young boy. He served as a staff sergeant in the United States Air Force during Worid War II, and pursued several occupations, including working for the railroad, before applying to the University of California at Los Angeles to study art, in the late 1950s.

Here he earned his Master of Arts, in 1961.

Garabedian pursued his art and exhibited widely, gamering interna tional recognition and critical acciaim when he participated in important museum exhibitions, including the Whitney Museum of American Art Biennale in 1975; San Francisco Museum of Modem Art in 1976; the Venice Biennale in 1976 (also ´82, ´84 and ´85); The High Museum, Atlanta, 1980; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, 1984; Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York in 1989 and the Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan in 1991.

Garabedian received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in 1977; a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 1979, and in 2000 the American Academy of Arts and Letters award.