Martin Barooshian

“To me, painting  in oil on canvas and printmaking go hand in hand.  Frequently, a print image will trigger off a  painting idea and vice versa.”

Martin  Barooshian’s visual vocabulary is a complexity of means.  With his technical expertise firmly  established, Barooshian has created, over the last decade, many fine and  compelling works in printmaking as well as in oils.

The  oil paintings of Martin Barooshian convey effectively the artist’s  preoccupations with subconscious imagery and the unexplored realms of the  mind.  Brilliant colors and amorphous  shapes merge in a visceral and organic way.   His work eludes a precise, rational, simplified definition as multiple  ideas merge on the canvas, even while clearly recognizable images appear for us  to see.

Mystery,  humor, romance, eroticism, lyricism, line, color and the subconscious mind are  all part of the artistic concerns of Martin Barooshian.  He is a technician and a thinker.  He acknowledges the work of others and yet  has innumerable ideas of his own to contend with and make visible.  His art is not voguish or predictable.  His art invites us and encourages a  contemplative spirit as we peer more closely and carefully.  In the graphic arts as well as in oils,  Martin Barooshian delights in the known and the unknown, and he explores both  worlds with inspired technical finesse.