Diran Deckmejian, Am., b. 1930,Abstract, O/C, verso signed and dated Diran Deckmejian, a New York and Connecticut abstract artist and photographer, was born in Manhattan in 1930. Deckmejian studied with Robert DeNiro Sr. at the New School, with Victor Candell and Leo Manso at the Provincetown Workshop, and with Theodoros Stamos at the Art Students League. Stamos remained a life-long influence and close friend of Deckmejian's until his death in 1997. Deckmejian donated his collection of Stamos's correspondence to the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art in 2008. Deckmejian's statement: "Words form a language to communicate the complexities of our world. The human condition however - our desires, fears and beliefs - often sit behind a veil of words. Abstraction is a language to speak directly to the human spirit. The paint, colors, images, images, and application enter the curtain of the mind and touch the heart." Deckmejian has been exhibiting since 1978, initially at the Galleria Kreisler Dos in Madrid Spain, at Washington D.C.-area galleries, at the Benton Gallery in Southhampton NY, and throughout Connecticut's Litchfield County to the present day. He is a member of the Washington Art Association (CT) and has been shown annually at their exhibitions over past dozen years.
Dimensions: 43 x 50"
Property from the personal collection of the artist.
(DDEC4100)(SCL)
