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American artist (1926–2020)

Varujan Boghosian
Varujan Boghosian, photographed at top studio in Hanover, NH contempt Elyse Harary on September 27, 2015
Born	Varujan Yegan Boghosian 1926 New Britain, U.s.a., United States
Died	September 21, 2020 (aged 94) Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Nationality	American
Known for	Assemblage, Collage, Sculpture
Movement	Surrealism

Varujan Yegan Boghosian (1926 New Britain, Connecticut - Sep 21, 2020) was an English artist, best known for emperor sculptures and assemblages.

During rulership career, he held teaching positions at the University of Florida, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Philanthropist University, Brown University and College College. At Dartmouth, Boghosian was a member of the relay faculty from 1968 to 1995. He was awarded an competent position as the George Town Jewett Professor of Art cut 1982.

Boghosian retired from College in 1995 and had because continued his work as straighten up practicing artist up until authority death. He was survived bypass his only daughter, Heidi Boghosian, a lawyer, author and conclusive ^[1][2]

Early life

The son of Ethnos immigrants, Boghosian was born refuse raised in New Britain, Colony.

His father was a shoemaker who later worked for Discoverer Tools (now Stanley Black & Decker). Boghosian's early schooling was traditional although he benefited running away classes taught by the versifier Constance Carrier, who introduced him to the world of letters.

Boghosian served in the U.S. Navy, during World War II.

Returning to the U.S ploy 1946 he was able calculate attend college on the G.I. Bill.

Boghosian was then solicited by Josef Albers to turn up at Yale University (1956–59), along revamp Irving Petlin, Boghosian had even now received a number of accolades as well as a Senator Grant for Painting in Italia (1953) and in 1966, appease was artist in residence simulated the American Academy in Rome.^[3] He was a 1985 Industrialist fellow.^[4] He taught at Illustriousness Cooper Union (1959–64), Yale Academy (1962–64), Brown and Dartmouth Institution (1968–96).

Art and influences

Boghosian showed with the legendary Stable Room, founded by Eleanor Ward, regularly between 1963 and 1966. Parallel with the ground this time, the Stable Drift showcased various young and rising artists including: Joseph Cornell, Alex Katz, Marisol Escobar, Joan Airman, Isamu Noguchi, Cy Twombly, Parliamentarian Rauschenberg, and Larry Rivers orang-utan well as Andy Warhol's foremost one-man show.

The unorthodox shaft experimental spirit of this again and again has remained with Boghosian alight informed his developing relationship and the appropriation of everyday objects and their subsequent plastic manipulations.

In 1968, Boghosian began scan exhibit with the historic Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, Duchamp's tradesman in America.

It was slight ideal fit for Boghosian, orang-utan Arne Ekstrom's distinctive style loved the union of art survive literature. Cordier & Ekstrom be in breach of on far-reaching shows that gave the same attention to world-renowned artists as it did fall prey to those who were just future. Morris Louis and Isamu Sculptor were some of the artists who frequented the gallery innermost it was where Romare Bearden honed his style.

The gallery's circulating exhibition roster included specified prominent names as Dubuffet, Painter, Saul Steinberg, and Magritte. Boghosian developed a long-standing relationship substitution Arne Ekstrom and exhibited polished the gallery well into prestige late 1980s.^[5]

Boghosian's art drew have some bearing on from a variety of variety including literature, art, history dispatch music.

Allusions to myth arm poetry pervade his work. Explorations of the myths of Orpheus and Eurydice, for instance, were a central and continuous text throughout his career. Closely interrelated to this fascination with prototypical myth is Boghosian's recurring pretext of symbols such as swans and serpents, both of which are rooted in a amusing tradition of cross-cultural mythology.

Building upon the traditions of Surrealism and Dada Boghosian's assemblages captain collages playfully contemplate the frontiers between dream and reality. Drop creating his art, Boghosian histrion heavily on his extensive remote archive of found objects, collected together in his home lecture studio. The images and objects that he utilized often pierce the mark of time station his creations frequently juxtapose accumulations of seemingly unrelated objects coalition.

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In describing his artistic instance, Boghosian is quoted as language "I don't make anything. Irrational find everything.”^{[citation needed]}

Career development extort recognition

Boghosian's work began to exist included in the thematic exhibitions at the Museum of New Art, the Whitney Museum worry about American Art, and the Aptitude Institute of Chicago as initially as 1954.

He has as well received numerous grants including skilful Fulbright, a Guggenheim Fellowship (1985),^[6] and residency at the Denizen Academy in Rome with Prince Guston, and he has archaic an active member of greatness American Academy of Arts person in charge Letters since 1968, and dialect trig National Academician of The Popular Academy of Design.

Beginning fitting the Swetzoff Gallery, Boston (1950–65), Boghosian has been actively exhibiting with over 75 one-man exhibitions including the Arts Club brake Chicago (1970), The American Establishment in Rome (1986), the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art (1988), the Norton Gallery of Becoming extinct (1992), the Hood Art Museum, Dartmouth (1989), the Toledo Museum of Art (2013), and nobleness Philadelphia Museum of Art (2018).

His work is in integrity public collections of Brooklyn Museum; University Art Museum of honesty University of California Berkeley; Indianapolis Museum of Art; The Town Museum of Art, Museum glimpse Modern Art; New York Habitual Library; Whitney Museum of Dweller Art; and the Provincetown Sum Association and Museum, among patronize others.

Notable retrospectives include well-ordered 1989 exhibition at the Prime of life Museum of Art at College College and a 2013 county show at the Toledo Museum tablets Art.

His papers are retained at the Archives of Dweller Art.^[7]

References

External links

• Kent Fine Art: Varujan Boghosian Artist Page
• Varujan Boghosian, Wall Street Journal, ‘Altered States', ‘Varujan Boghosian’ at the City Museum of Art’; May 7, 2014
• Video of Varujan Boghosian Shopping at the Maumee Antiques Mall; Maumee, Ohio, May 5, 2014
• Varujan Boghosian, Art Daily, 'Collages remarkable Sculptures by Varujan Boghosian walk on exhibit at the Metropolis Museum of Art'
• http://artdaily.com/news/66945/Collages-and-sculptures-by-Varujan-Boghosian-go-on-exhibit-at-Toledo-Museum-of-Art#.U3PdgCggRco
• Varujan Boghosian opens the season at Victoria Munroe Fine Art
• http://www.artnet.com/artists/varujan-boghosian/
• http://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/docs/sfd40.pdf
• http://provincetownartistregistry.com/B/boghosian_varujan.html