Christine Karapetian

Christine Karapetian
Jackson Heights, New York, USA

STATEMENT

I work intuitively using mostly found materials. The process of cutting, pasting, adding, subtracting, and often scraping is how I explore. Unpredictability is embedded in this process. It is mysterious and often reveals surprises which is why I am drawn to it.

Materials have a physical presence and also carry history, including the serendipitous moment of finding them. This history does not necessarily enter into the meaning of the work for the viewer, but is important to me. It remains, like an invisible thread, embedded into the final work.

I am Armenian-American, the offspring of a people whose history is rooted in Diaspora. My intuitive response to this lack of place and the negation of history, by some, is to make objects that trace to, and build onto a collective memory.

BIO

Christine Karapetian is a Queens, New York-based artist. Her work includes collage, assemblage and monoprints, all of which rely on a shared process: the dialogue between intuition, thinking and the accidental. In 2025 she was included in “Ink, Press, Repeat: National Juried Printmaking and Book Arts Exhibition” at William Paterson University Galleries, Paterson, New Jersey and “RE-BOP! Obstructions and Disruptions” at Beverly Arts Center, Chicago, Illinois, an exhibit partly culled from inclusion in Cut Me Up Issue 15: Obstructions & Disruptions.

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