Gaya Karapetyan — Contemporary Art Curator Magazine

May 5

May 5 Gaya Karapetyan

Biography

Gaya is an award-winning international contemporary abstract artist from Toronto. A recipient of numerous art awards and an author of several art publications, Gaya exhibits in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Her abstract paintings are proudly held in a number of private collections.

Artist Statement

Creation through abstract art is the sublime freedom to express oneself. To be an artist means to me to gain that ultimate and sought-after freedom. With the power of colour, I capture the beauty of landscapes, light refractions, mysterious fluctuations of water, texture of flowers, and deviational patterns of a moving form. Music is that powerful source of inspiration which induces my profound emotions, plays on the strings of imagination and culminates in refined creativity of artwork.

What first prompted you to think of becoming an artist?

I am a self-taught artist and very proud of it. How have I become an artist? That was not a structured or carefully thought step in my life. It was a spontaneous spiritual rebirth. The blessing was already in me, it just needed a trigger, the right timing and environment to be revealed. I have discovered my true calling and realized that painting is what I really want and love to do. Likely, in my case it was reflective of a natural flow of events and my lived experiences.

What kind of an artist do you ultimately see yourself?

I never try to predict the future because life is unpredictable. Being determined and ambitious, I do not intend to rest on my achievements and will continue my journey to professional perfection by exhibiting worldwide, participating in international competitions as every winning and recognition opens new horizons in my art career. The most important thing I would like to see in the future for myself is that more Art Lovers worldwide become acquainted with my paintings and get inspired by them.

What are you hoping to communicate to the viewer through your work?

In a few words, that would be the richness of color, height of imagination and freedom of thoughts. In more extended way, the overarching cultural concern and social message of my work is to demonstrate beauty and power of the nature. I define the nature as a cradle of humanity and the intransigent essence of our lives. Nature is a value on its own that should be preserved and not compromised. An independent stream of my “utopian/dystopian” abstract artwork embraces the realities of life and the surrounding world through the lens of our aspirations towards freedom and perceptions of socially absurdist human interrelations. I love and am proud of my completed works. Each of them represents a small particle of my soul.

Can you explain the process of creating your work?

The idea of a painting may conceive first in my mind and then go through a long way of configuring and re-configuring it virtually for days. In other cases, it can just suddenly pop up and appear in a distinct visualized way thus causing an immediate urge to paint. Importantly, music is crucial in generating, conceptualizing and maturing the idea of painting. The materialization of the artistic idea into a concrete painting is also unconventional. I can say a method of trials and errors frequently takes place, but not always – some paintings are created in a glimpse of an unhindered continuum of action, with no single hue being changed or refined. It depends on the nature of each painting.

What is your favourite part of the creative process?

Creative process is a very fascinating and at the same time a complex process which consumes my mind and ability entirely. I love every part of it: one instance leads to another, all being intertwined and equally important, and every time taking me beyond unimaginable. Creation should be driven by sensual and emotional sphere of the artist. Its rational element should be contained to the minimum possible to ensure absolute introversion and introspection. The artist cannot paint preoccupied with externalities or having in mind what the viewers would think about her future work. It becomes irrelevant at that point because otherwise the painting stops being an artwork and transforms into a marketing tool.

Can you give us an insight into current projects and inspiration; or what we can look forward to from you in the near future?

I have several ongoing and upcoming exhibitions in New York, Barcelona and Zurich. Currently, I participate in an art exhibition in Zurich, Switzerland, represented by Artbox Project. In May 2021, I will present my art in Barcelona. I am also happy to announce that in August 2021, I will showcase my artwork during Swiss Art Expo. In addition, the opening date of an exhibition in New York, which was postponed due to a pandemic, will be announced soon. There are some other projects and ideas in progress as well. I feel truly privileged to share my work with the art community and present it to the public. I look forward to creating new artworks, experimenting, exploring new concepts and pathways in art and striving for creativity. But most importantly, I am very appreciative and grateful to thousands of my Art Lovers worldwide who support, follow and encourage me over these years, wait for my new works, write poems and music inspired by my paintings and write heartfelt testimonials. My Art Lovers always give me the strength to go forward. On a closing note, I would like to express my gratitude to the international jury for recognition of my artwork and granting the Collector's Vision International Art Award inaugurated by Contemporary Art Curator Magazine.

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