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Maspeth Rituals (Palimpsest #14), 2013
Oil, oil pastel, and wax pencil on canvas
84 x 72 in (213.4 x 182.9 cm) -
Untitled (Arabesque Composition), 2023
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen
84 x 60 in (213.36 x 152.4 cm) -
Arabesque Composition with Turquoise Agenda, 2023–2025
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen
78 x 76 in (198.1 x 193 cm) -
Ornamental Composition for Social Spaces 7, 2018
Oil, oil crayon, wax pencil, and pencil on canvas
78 x 56 in (198.1 x 142.2 cm) -
Untitled (Arabesque Composition), 2024
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen
66 x 76 in (167.6 x 193 cm) -
Reluctant Ornamental, 2019
Oil and oil crayon on linen
90 x 78 in (228.6 x 198.1 cm) -
Untitled (Arabesque Composition), 2024–2025
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen
72 x 76 in (182.88 x 193.04 cm) -
Ibn Sina, 2019
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen
78 x 56 in (198.1 x 142.2 cm) -
Untitled (Arabesque Composition), 2023
Oil, oil crayon, and pencil on linen with artist's frame
67 9/16 x 57 9/16 in (171.6 x 146.2 cm)
Photo: Sebastian Bach -
Iskandari, 2021–2022
Oil, oil crayon, wax pencil, and pencil on linen in artist's frame
67 3/8 x 77 3/8 in (171.1 x 196.5 cm)
Maspeth Rituals (Palimpsest #14), 2013
Oil, oil pastel, and wax pencil on canvas
84 x 72 in (213.4 x 182.9 cm)
Aram's paintings are sites of negotiation, where ornamental strategies meet abstraction’s diverse vocabularies. Often beginning with gridded structures, each work builds through a process of layering and revision, retrieving visual languages that art history has often relegated to secondary status.
From this foundation, Aram’s paintings resist easy categorization, functioning simultaneously as abstract compositions and cultural arguments. Aram employs a palette that ranges from earth tones to deep blues that evoke ancient ceramics. His surfaces become stages for encounters between disparate visual languages—geometric precision meeting calligraphic flow, systematic repetition yielding to gestural spontaneity. These negotiations unfold across layers of paint, creating compositions where no single vocabulary dominates, resulting in works that feel both contemporary and timeless.