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Member - Garik Karapetyan
The painting has its inner content.
Once I get started, I already have preliminary image of the picture in my mind. However, when in process, there appears a direction point that evolves subconsciously.
By liberating my actions from direct dependence of the conventionalities, I set color and form free, so that they reveal themselves as spiritual elements, finally becoming spiritual reality on a surface.

BIOGRAPHY
Garik Karapetyan was born in 1973 in Armenia. He started painting at a young age, attending an art school from youth. He was ten years old when he had his first solo exhibition. From 1990 to 1996 he received a professional education in Yerevan’s Art Academy in Armenia. His familiarity with international art and with his constant research, the artist became closer and closer to abstract art. He noticed the freedom and lack of restriction in arts traditions and customs. This was the meaning of art for him.
Starting from the year 1995 he shared his art with the world- in USA, France, Armenia, and Russia’s art galleries and cultural centers. He had four solo exhibitions in France and one in USA. In 2007 with Marseilles City Hall’s orders he drew a fresco for a schools exterior wall. The artist’s paintings are in Armenia’s Ministry of Culture "Found of Culture" and many other different countries private collections. Lives in Armenia.

EDUCATION
1990 - 1996 Graduated from Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting, and Armenia

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Gallery Anna-Tschopp, Marseille, France
2009 Gallery H.Kazan Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2008 UGAB Centre Cultural, Marseille, France
2007 Fresco on the wall school Les Lierres, Marseille, France
2005 Centre Cultural Sahak-Mesrop, Marseille, France
2005 Gallery l'Autre Cote, Marseille, France
1983 Journalists' Union Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Museum of Modern Art Armenia, Yerevan
2010 HayArt cultural centre, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Espace Culture, Marseille, France
2010 Armenian Artists Union's Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Maison Blanche, Marseille, France
2009 Art Vilnius-09, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2009 Terra Galleria Artworks, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, USA
2009 Gallery Julie Rico, Los Angeles, USA
2008 International Art Expo, Las Vegas, USA
2008 Gallery Anna-Tschopp, Marseille, France
2008 Armenian Artists Union's Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
2007 Gallery Ucellino, Marseille, France
2007 Maison de Ventes de Damien Leclere, Marseille, France
2007 Museum Minas Avetissian, Jajur, Armenia
2006 Gallery Gabone Art , Yerevan, Armenia
2006 Gallery Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Gallery Academia, Yerevan, Armenia
2004 Gallery Brad Cooper, Tampa, FL USA
2001 Gallery Brad Cooper, Tampa, FL USA
2000 Ministry of Culture of Armenia, Fund for Culture, Yerevan
2000 Museum of Modern Art Armenia, Yerevan
1999 Armenian Artists Union's Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
1997 Yerevan State Academy of Art, Yerevan
1995 Armenian Embassy in Moscow, Russia
1994 Tumanian State Museum, Yerevan, Armenia