in 1971 from the State University of New York at Albany. A studio art major at Massachusetts College of Art, Barsamian went on to receive his M.A. Robert Barsamian was born in a close-knit Armenian community in Whitinsville, Massachusetts in 1947, the son and grandson of survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. The small works use symbolic images of animals and food, along with ornamentation and pattern associated with the various cultures he portrays, to widen experiential awareness for the viewer. The works explore the effects of such man made tragedies as the Sudanese child armies, the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan and the war in Afghanistan. The small scale drawings and paintings in Three Degrees of Separation are allegorical visual representations of the artist’s examinations and reflections of worldwide political conflicts.
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