Alexandre Gallery is pleased to present Varujan Boghosian: A Selection, an exhibition of select assemblages from the artist’s personal collection.

Sculptor, assembler, constructionist, builder – beachcomber, scavenger, collector, historian, conservator – Varujan Boghosian’s work is inspired by the past, by an appreciation of the lives and legacy of myth, of people and objects that have gone before, and a love of the images and iconography that lasts. He gathers the relics of our common experience, and transformed by imagination, they become poetic tributes.

In his assemblages, Boghosian incorporates found objects, such as books, toys, cards and tools from antique shops and flea markets. He employs strategies of construction and deconstruction to recontexualize the castoff materials in his work. His approach is intuitive and meditative, drawing inspiration from a plurality of sources including literature, mythology, art history and music. Allusions to Greek myths feature prominently in his work. He also draws inspiration from Surrealist traditions that contemplate the boundaries between dream and reality. The artist “uses visual elements of light and dark, color and mass, line and form to expose new possibilities in the relationship between continuity and change, fact and fiction, reality and fantasy,” writes Robert M. Doty, curator of Boghosian’s 1989 retrospective exhibition at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College.