Gallery 1832 celebrates the month of Armenian resilience with the opening of an exhibition by Masha Keryan. Inspired by Armenian medieval illuminations, the thirty oil paintings address displacement, community support,  and affection for a culture that is continuously under erasure.

What happens after is a new landscape, new home and new people. A new desire to recreate the village that was left behind. A new table filled with grandmother’s recipes and traditional grilled meats, with new faces eating and toasting, brushing off with laughter the hardships of the past and present. What happens after is a new beginning and a new sense of purpose in each coming day.

Masha Keryan is a Boston-based artist from Armenia. Keryan's work is informed by her cultural background with focus on the relationships with time, space and people after relocation. Her current work weaves elements of the inherited Armenian visual language and occasionally zooms in on the Post-Soviet Armenian identity, existing in the Western contemporary context. Painterly Masha is interested in exploring the properties of oil paint while honoring the material’s capabilities beyond its illustrative properties. Keryan holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent exhibitions include Above Liquidation (Atamian Hovsepian), Dancing Gems (Copley Society of Art), The Human Condition (SubCentral), Night and Day (Pellas Gallery) etc.

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