Robert Barsamian
Barsamian's three dimensional installations, complete with drawings, paintings and lighting are about imagination, and fantasy, hope and fear, creating space and giving structural form to psychological states of mind. Barsamian's works create his legacy to history, sometimes with oral recorded narrative and music, to bring the past to a new life. His works are a critique on the human condition as it was during the genocide, and the slipperiness of meaning and understanding in the modern world. His "sacred spaces" - rooms that envelope and seduce the viewer to experience visually and sensually the emotions he wants to share from his world with his audience- provides them the wider experience of eliciting their own memories.
The Armenian Church, 2001
Conduit Gallery Exhibitions
Selected Exhibitions:
- 2011 Rhode Island College, Providence, RI (forthcoming)
- 2011 Holocaust Memorial Center, Farmington Hills, MI
- 2009 Project Row Houses, Houston, TX
- 2003 Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
- 2002 Baruch College, New York, NY
- 2001 Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, PA
- 2000 Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
- 1992 Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Lecture/Visiting Artist:
- 2010 Annual Scholars Conference on the Holocaust, Philadelphia, PA
- 2006 International Conference on the Arts in Society, Edinburgh, Scotland
- 2005 International Assoc. of Genocide Scholars, Boca Raton, FL
- 2003 University of Texas Arlingotn, Arlington, TX
- 2002 Worcester State College, Worcester, MA
- 2000 Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
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