left: Absence/Presence Deer, 2005, acrylic and ink jet on canvas, 60x120"
right: Absence/Presence Rabbit, 2005, acrylic and ink jet on canvas, 59x95"

Barsamian's three dimensional installations, complete with drawings, paintings and lighting are about imagination, and fantasy, hope and fear, creating space and giving structural form to psychological states of mind. Barsamian's works create his legacy to history, sometimes with oral recorded narrative and music, to bring the past to a new life. His works are a critique on the human condition as it was during the genocide, and the slipperiness of meaning and understanding in the modern world. His "sacred spaces" - rooms that envelope and seduce the viewer to experience visually and sensually the emotions he wants to share from his world with his audience- provides them the wider experience of eliciting their own memories.

The Armenian Church, 2001

Selected Exhibitions:
Azuma Gallery, NY
Asilah Museum, Morocco
Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA
Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Project Row House, Houston, TX
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN