Christine Karapetian

Christine Karapetian
Jackson Heights, New York, USA

STATEMENT

My work is not telling a specific story. When successful, it conveys an intimacy that is mysterious and not easily defined. It is the result of my actions and response to experience, observation, and chance.

I paint on and use found objects and collage because the elements of chance and the accidental mirror the process of discovery in how I work. The process of adding and removing, snipping, pasting, painting, and scraping, takes each piece through multiple stages.

My job is to witness that moment of insight and rescue it, not unlike the method I employ when I decide what piece of trash to salvage from the street, or find along my way.

I am Armenian-American, the offspring of a people whose history is rooted in the 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 paper collages, mixed material constructions, and recent, ongoing monoprint workshop explorations. The work shares and relies on her process: the play between the space where accidents, the unknown, and serendipitous events occur, and the dialogue between intuition and thinking. Karapetian has exhibited in galleries in New York City and was included in MAINTENANT 17:Dada Journal: The Peacefire Issue (Three Rooms Press), as well as cover art for several literary publications. Her solo exhibition was at The Jersey City Museum, also a solo-e-journal artist in Diaphanous Press, Micro, 2019.

She studied at MICA, Women’s Studio Workshop, and, in September 2023, participated in Kolaj Institute’s Residency in Scotland.

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