Sirarpi Heghinian Walzer
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"Old paint on canvas, as it ages, sometimes becomes transparent. When that happens it is possible, in some pictures, to see the original lines: a tree will show through a woman's dress, a child makes way for a dog, a large boat is no longer on an open sea. That is called pentimento because the painter "repented," changed her mind. Perhaps it would be as well to say that the old conception, replaced by a later choice, is a way of seeing and then seeing again." (A passage from Pentimento by Lillian Hellman)

Using oils and acrylics, inks, and pastels, Sirarpi draws, scrawls, scrapes, and paints on canvas and wood surfaces that are rich in layers of handmade and recycled papers, fabric, wood powder, sand, and other natural materials. These compositions celebrate or reinvent a world of inner apprehension and appreciation for the modulations wrought over time. Her suggestive abstract figurative work springs from meditations on nature, or childhood memories distilled into a single dramatic moment. In several of her paintings, an abstracted female figure prevails within an abiding sense of solitude.

Sirarpi's works have the musicality of Kandinsky and the inwardness of Klee; their energetic surfaces imply an ongoing tension between freedom and containment. Informed by readings in Thoreau, her response edges the viewer closer to that place where chaos erupts into clarity.

Sirarpi holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in biomedical and systems engineering from Boston University, and a degree from the Academy for Fine Arts, "The Etage," in Berlin, Germany, where she studied painting, stage, and theatre design. In Berlin, where she lived for thirteen years, Sirarpi worked with such international artists as director/stage designer Andrej Woron, environmental artist Peter Erskine, and among others Milan Knizak, Pauline Disson, Jan Hendrikse, Klaus Denhardt and Tim Harney.

Sirarpi has exhibited her work, including installations, in Germany and USA. She lives and works in Lexington, Massachusetts.

EDUCATION

1990–1995 Academy for the Fine Arts, "The Etage" Berlin, Germany, Bachelor of Fine Arts Painting, Set/Theater Design. Studied with Andrej Woron, Pauline Disson, Klaus Denhardt, Milan Knizak, Jan Hendrikse, Peter Erskine, Timothy Harney, George Nick and Jill Pottle

1975–1982 Boston University
1982 Master of Science in Systems Engineering
1979 Bachelor of Science in Biomedical/Electrical Engineering
1975 Watertown High School, High School Diploma

EXHIBITIONS

1990 Galerie "Die Pumpe" Tiergarten , Germany
1990 Galerie der Lehr und Forschungsinstitute Berlin, Germany
1991 Galerie "Die Etage" Kreuzberg, Germany
1991–93 Aula Der Hochschule der Kunste Berlin, Germany
1992 Aula Der Hochschule der Kunste, Installation Berlin,Germany
1991–94 Freier Berliner Kunstverein (FBK) Austellungen Berlin, Germany
1993 Acud Kunstverein, Installation, Berlin, Germany
1994 Gallery Kabuffs, Installation, Berlin, Germany
1997 Galerie Djesany , Mixed media, Neukolln, Germany
1998 Galerie Ambert , Mixed media, Charlottenburg, Germany
1990–98 Galerie "Praxis Walzer" Tiergarten, Germany
1997–99 Galerie Boettcher, Berlin, Germany
1998–03 Concord Art Assosciation / Juried Members Show, Concord, MA
1998–02 State House / Group Exhibition, Boston, MA
1998 Stage Design "Yanomamo," FPUUC, Lexington, MA
1998–03 Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
1999–03 Depot Square Gallery, Lexington, MA
2000–02 Boston International Fine Art Show, Boston, MA
2002 LYT, Stage Design "Hello Dolly.", Lexington, MA
2003 Westford Center for the Arts "Six Aritsts in Search of...", Westford, MA
2004 Depot Square Gallery
2005 Depot Square Gallery
2006 Depot Square Gallery
2007 Concord Art Association, Juried I and Juried II shows
2007 FSCOTT Gallery, Sudbury, MA
2007 FOPAC GALLERY, 51 Walden, CONCORD, MA
2007 Andover / Newton Theological School, Newton, MA
2007 Democracy Center, 45 Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA
2008 Concord Art Association, Juried I and Juried II shows
2008 FOPAC Gallery, Pierce Gallery
2008 FSCOTT Gallery, Sudbury, MA

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

ART Without Borders, Director, Cambridge, MA
Consult & Design, Principal, Lexington, MA
Depot Square Gallery, Lexington, MA
Cazarti Gallery, Lexngton, MA
Galerie Fantom, Berlin, Germany
Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
Concord Art Association, Concord, MA
Monotype Guild of New England, Boston, MA
Metro-Lex Artist Network, Founding Member, Boston, MA

STUDIO
5 Fulton Road, Lexington, MA
Munroe Art Center, Mass. Ave, Lexington, MA
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