Aram Derian
1972, Armenian/French/American

The Armenian-French-American painter Aram Derian mainly works with abstract forms and expressions. Most comfortable he feels using the pallet knife as both a paint applicator and as scraping instrument, to build up the different layers. By choosing more or less transparency in the different layers, colour and form come more prominent forward.  “Depending on how I feel at a particular moment, I give layers more or less presence. People in my personal environment drew my attention to the fact that works I created in Yerevan are richer in contrast and rougher in expression than the works produced in the States, which does not surprise me, as I feel stronger sentiments being in Armenia”.