Gevork Chubaryan

Gevork Chubaryan is a painter identified for his use of a limited color pallet and hard geometric lines that create a seemingly flat landscape. A repeated theme in his work is a network of three to five point shapes, the fascia that connects everything together and activates the space. Often one will find a “character” in his work that has the resemblance of a cat that he states it is not a cat but a shape representing him. He uses elements of Gestalt theory in execution to draw in the viewer: he groups and shapes components to invoke familiarity. However, at a closer examination the viewer will begin to understand there is nothing truly familiar leading them to a further exploration of the work, a journey. Gevork works with oil paint, acrylics, and more modern artistic tools such as markers made by Montana, Krink Ink, and Molotov. Blue tones and shades of black and grey are most dominant in is his work with smaller areas of orange, yellow, and pink tones. The combination of blues and orange is drawn from his Armenia heritage and the landscape of his family’s roots. The preference to pastel shades comes from his early years of growing up in Russia and the tones of architecture of the imperial days. His preference for landscape style painting came from his teens making plein air paintings in Texas. The geometric shapes he developed during his BFA years in School of Visual Arts in New York City and solidified within the decade he spent there after graduation. Gevork creates a world of layers: a labyrinthine of emotions and personal experiences as a way to invite the viewers to explore their own self-identity within his work.