ALMA to host Martin Barooshian’s exhibition

PanARMENIAN.Net - The Armenian Library and Museum of America (ALMA) will host an exhibition of Martin Barooshian titled “Pointillism to Surrealism. Recent Paintings, 2001-2011” opening on Sunday, October 2, in the ALMA’s Contemporary Art Gallery.

Born in 1929 in Chelsea, Massachusetts, Martin Barooshian has distinguished himself as an artist whose great vitality and willingness to explore is matched only by his technical finesse. He is a superb and accomplished printmaker having innovatively produced in every graphics medium including woodcuts, etchings, engravings, lithographs, and silkscreens, ALMA said in a press release.

Barooshian graduated with highest honors from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, having also completed a BS in Education from Tufts University, and an MS from Boston University in Art History. His first major artistic and personal breakthroughs, however, occurred when surrounded by the boldly risk taking members, of the Atelier 17 while studying etching and engraving techniques with S.W. Hayter in Paris. First "discovered" by John Taylor Arms, Barooshian has had numerous international exhibitions, and his works are included in such major collections as MoMA, the Metropolitan, Boston, and the Library of Congress. He has also served as a past president of SAGA and the vice president of the U.S. Committee to International Association of Art (UNESCO).