This may be a bit too removed from objectivity and a lack of vested interest for a review, so fortunately it’s not a review. It is a profile of an artist who happens to be one of the first people I ever met. Agop Gemdjian's solo exhibition at Alfa Art Gallery in New Brunswick opened last week and runs through the month of June.
This is after all an article, so let me start with an objective quote from an early review. It's by Roumen Serafimov, art critic for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Varna, Bulgaria. Writing in 1990, he said that Gemdjian is “an artist who has ever demonstrated his bent for vanguard and figurative thinking, and non-traditional plastic creation."
