The event was a success thanks to my studio partner, Charlene Goldstein who organized it to the finest details. We had a quality turnout of art lovers who came to our studios, fulfilling conversations, insightful opinions and overall positive energy throughout the weekend.
Thank you to the Cultural Council for organizing such an phenomenal event and to anyone who was able to make it.
We’ll see you next year!
Pictures by Nuné Asatryan
Just a reminder that our studios will be open for public this coming weekend May the 2nd and 3rd from 12 – 5 pm.
Click the Cultural Council’s Open Studios link here to find more details about the event.
I’m pleased to announce my studio mate Charlene Goldstein and I will be participating in the Cultural Council’s Open Studios event again this year. Mark your calendars for the 2nd and 3rd of May from 12pm to 5pm. We hope you can make it for refreshments and fun.
It’s been about 3 years since I started Horizons, a series of abstracted fantastical imagined landscapes. They have been slowly evolving like all my art; I’ve been painting them on a variety of formats from small 8 x 8 to large 60 x 80 inch canvases. I’m still passionate about this series, it’s fun and lets me express with no expectations and absolute freedom.
The painting above is the 100th one, a special one made on a humble standard size of 16 x 20 inch.
Cheers and thank you for your support in my artistic journey.
Aldo
I’ve been back at painting figures and portraits again, which I left aside for some time to concentrate on imagined landscapes (which I’m still painting.) I’m creating new ones and also revisiting some old paintings. It comes in cycles, it’s a subject I have always enjoyed. I’m still deciding how to call this new series of portraits. Let’s see how it evolves.
I’m not a night artist, but lately I have been experimenting with it. Everything changes in the dark, the way I perceive light, colors, sounds and how the objects around me reflect them. Mood and energy also change, it’s later in the day and the way I feel is different. But I’m enjoying such a slight addition to my routine, it’s a good way to end a fruitful day.
Based on a series called Searching for Mushrooms. We all search for something in our lives, whether it’s an answer for a question, a solution of a problem or looking for something meaningful. This painting and the series of the same title is about that, the curiosity in all of us.
Driven by curiosity, always looking for answers, questioning everything, it’s intriguing.
I’m thrilled to announce that one of my artworks was selected for a public project in the city of Boynton Beach, FL. I was one of the finalists for the Turning Traffic Control Boxes into Public Art program. My artwork Horizons No. 46 has been selected as one of the final 35 pieces. I’ll be sharing more news in the coming weeks!
Horizons is my latest series. It’s the longest I have made so far and still going, it’s the evolution of many years painting in oils. This is me honoring our land, the place where we live, mother nature. And to honor the grandiosity of our land I made many of these paintings as big as I could, some things need to be big to be better appreciated, they carry a different feel, a different atmosphere, one seems to interact better with it, kind of sacred. To perceive all this you have to experience it in person.
This painting preceded the landscape-based Horizons series. It is a clash of different ideas, many layers of paint, corrections, additions, subtractions that slowly came together to a somewhat cohesive composition. I usually don’t work this way, it is a lot of struggle and frustration. At the time I was using elements from older paintings such as stripes, which I’m revisiting these days, paint dripping techniques and the usual random abstract mountains, rocks, planets and celestial objects which I have been using for quite some time.
As the title suggests it is a Journey to somewhere, perhaps some place we know or one that we might discover some time in the future. Or maybe you might dream about it like I have.
Most of my paintings are based off my dreams (and this one is not the exception,) curiosity and my ever desire to question absolutely everything.
