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Varujan Boghosian at PAAM |
July 30, 2009
  The Provincetown Art Association and Museum (PAAM) is hosting a major show of the work of Varujan Boghosian. Boghosian, who taught at Dartmouth for many years before his recent retirement, has been called an artist of the found object but is to my mind an artist of the selected object; he has assembled an enormous collection of evocative, weathered, heavily used artifacts by haunting dumps and junk stores, as well as looking around himself with an always observant eye. All of this stuff is stored on shelves and other visible spots inside his working space so that his eye can constantly assess the possibilities of combination and construction. When the eye and mind reach a decision, a piece is made – always from the available material, nothing new added. The resulting pieces are redolent of past times, often of the constant use of people now gone, of a time when everything was made by hand and had a functional purpose.
 The PAAM show, rather than a career retrospective, is made up almost entirely of work completed within the last couple of years, which I find hugely moving – a testament to the brilliant vitality of a man whose life has been spent in the making of art.
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