Something childlike and folkloric in Samuel Gareginyan's paintings. Filled with oddball details and offbeat characters, the images betray a winsome personality, a wild streak of humor, and an eye for the unusual...
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“None of this is real,” said Samuel Gareginyan to a crowd of assembled students, faculty, and other curious onlookers in his warm Armenian accent. “It's a different plane of reality.” And it was impossible not to see what he meant, in a room full of windows called paintings.
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