BIO
Sirarpi’s artwork is in many collections nationally and internationally. She has received awards and exhibited her work in galleries throughout Europe and the United States. She lives and works in Lexington, Massachusetts.
Sirarpi’s artwork is represented by Cove Gallery, Honey Jones Gallery and Gallery Twist in MA and Gallery Z in RI. She is a member of Gallery 263, Concord Art Association and Montype Guild of New England. Sirarpi is the principal of Consult and Design, a small-business IT consulting firm. Sirarpi serves as Vice President of Non-Profit Net in MA, she is also the co-founder and director of Art Without Borders.
In Europe, Sirarpi studied Painting and Stage Design with artists Andrej Woron, Milan Knížák, and Peter Erskine, and in the USA, with Timothy Harney, Ati Gropius and Jon Imber among others. As a biomedical engineer at Biotroniks in Berlin, Germany, her team designed pacemakers. At Honeywell in Lexington, MA, she worked with a team in designing infrared imaging systems.
Sirarpi studied biomedical systems engineering at Boston University, painting and stage design at the Academy for Fine Arts “Die Etage” and Hochshüle der Künste in Berlin, Germany.
STATEMENT
My poetic abstractions spring both from meditations on nature and from memories that are distilled into single dramatic moments. The energetic surfaces imply an ongoing tension between freedom and containment, edging the viewer closer to that place where chaos can erupt into clarity. The color white suggests notions of purity and simplicity, and unifies the disparate objects. The deliberate juxtapositions of forms and exaggerations of color choices, provide clues to content and interpretation.
The paintings in the series “Pentimento” evolve, decay and morph. My art reflects on the ephemeral and flux of existence. Thriving and decaying, colorful and dark, alluring and foreboding, my work incarnates the paradoxes of nature. My choice of materials and tactile marks speak to the dualities of life.
Using oils, acrylics, inks and pastels, I draw, scrawl, scrape and paint on canvas and wood surfaces that are rich in layers of handmade and recycled papers, fabric, wood and other found materials. The layers of my collages ooze with life as I fix a moment of time.
RESUME
SIRARPI HEGHINIAN WALZER
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2022 Mass Art Auction, Boston, MA
2022 51 Walden Gallery, Concord, MA
2022 Lex Media Gallery, Lexington, MA
2021 Concord Art, Vivace, MA
2021 Gallery 263, Members Show, MA
2021 HoneyJones Gallery, MA
2021 Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
2020 URI, Feinberg Gallery, Radical Women, RI
2020 Maran Gallery, Lesley University, MA
2020 Concord Art, MJ1, MA
2020 CMAC Gallery, “Soulful”, MA
2019 Cove Gallery, Welfleet, MA
2019 Gallery Twist, Print Exhibition, MA
2019 Cambridge Art, Members Prize, MA
2019 Concord Art, MJ1, Juried show, MA
2019 Pierce Gallery, MA
2018 Spaceus Gallery, MA
2018 Fountain Street Gallery, MA
2018 MGNE National, The Art Complex Museum, MA
2018 Nave Gallery, Juried National Show, MA
2018 Carney Gallery, Regis College, MA
2018 Mass Art Auction, MA
2018 Concord Art, Roddy Show & MJ1-Painting, MA
2017 Landau Gallery, MA (solo)
2017 MASS Audubon Society, Habitat Gallery, MA
2017 Makeshift Museum, LA, CA
2016 MGNE at Gateway Gallery, Portsmouth, NH
2016 Dome Gallery, Curated by J. Motherwell & J. Banks, MA
2016 Attleboro Museum, MGNE Juried Show, MA
2015 Art Basel, SCOPE, Untitled, Miami, FL
2015 Whistler Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
2015 Orange County Contemporary CfA, CA
2015 Cambridge Art, National Juried by M. Rush, MA
2015 Armenian Museum of America, MA
2015 Zeitgeist Gallery, MA
2013-2015 Movimiento Gallery, SOWA, MA
2014 Six Depot Gallery, Lenox, MA
2013 Gallery 263 Artist in Residence Exhibition, MA
2012 Gallery 263, juried exhibitions, MA|
2013-2016 Exclusive Jewels Gallery, MA
2009-2012 Galatea Fine Arts, MA
2010- Reside, Mid Century Furniture, MA
2012 Cambridge Art, Juror's Award, Juried by D. Deitsch, MA
2011 Lincoln Arts Project Gallery, MA
2011 UForge Gallery, MA
2011 MGNE juried show in Choate Art Center, CT
2011 Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Juror: N. Capasso, MA
2010 Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Juror: A. Kayafas, MA
2010 Concord Art, Honorable Mention, Juror: M. Platais
2009 Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Juror’s Choice Award, Jurors: H. Shapiro & R. Reiselis, MA
1999-2009 Depot Square Gallery, MA
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury, MA
2017 Makeshift Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Attleboro Museum, Attleboro, MA
2015. Armenian Museum of America, Watertown, MA
2014 Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS IN EUROPE
1990-2000 Gallerie Djesany, Gallerie Kabuffs, Gallerie Die Pumpe, HdK Gallerie, Freier Berliner Kunstverein (FBK), Acud Kunstverein, Gallery Praxis Walzer
RECENT EXHIBITIONS at CORPORATIONS
2016-2020 Cell Signaling Technology, Mount Auburn Hospital (MAH), Law offices of Ahern & Embry; Novartis; 300 Technology Square;
Office of Dr. Sullivan (MAH), Osbidian Thera , Kyn Thera, Collier Int., Anoushella, Aloft Hotel, Alexandria, RE, Biotech, Lexmedia, Walden 51
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Boyadjian, Soybel, Gross, Rudelle-Arnaut, among others
CURATORIAL WORK
2017. Juror at Boston Camera Club, MA
2000-2016 FPCUU Gallery, MA
2011 Fisher College, Convocation speaker & exhibitor with P. Marshall, composer & R. Gibson, poet, MA
2010-2014 ART Without Borders, Democracy Center, MA
2008 Improv in 2D & 3D at Depot Square Gallery, MA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Cove Gallery, Wellfleet, MA
HoneyJones Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
Gallery Twist, Lexington, MA
Gallery Z, Providence, RI
Armenian Museum of America, Watertown, MA
PUBLICATIONS
2012-2017 Studio Visit Magazine, Volumes 24,27,28,31,32
2016 ARTVOICES Magazine, Winter 2016
2016 60 Americans, Curated by T. Sanders
2016 101 Contemporary Artists, Curated by T. Sanders
2016 Encaustic Art in the 21st Century, A. Lee & E. Ashley
2016 Anchor magazine by Still Harbor, Spring 2016
2016 Art and Business Council of Greater Boston, 10 Years of the Artists Professional ToolBox
2014 International Contemporary Artists, Volume
EMPLOYMENT
2018- Devarj Design Agency, consultant of business development, MA
2000- Consult & Design, principal, small business consulting, web development, branding & marketing, MA
1990- Creative Visionary Entrepreneur, artist, designer and consultant, MA
2004-2015 C & D, consultant: professor A. Chayes, Tufts University; Nettleton Associates; Asiamed; H. Pribel Interiors, MA
2000-2004 SNB Communications, consultant, management consulting firm, MA
2000-2009 Depot Square Gallery, member and co-director, MA
1995-2000 Praxis Dr. Walzer, consultant, designer & curator, Berlin, Germany
1992-1995 Systec GmbH, system engineer, telecommunication & ISDN design, Berlin, Germany
1986-1992 Biotronik, project engineer, pacemaker design, Berlin, Germany
1985-1986 Inframetrics, project engineer, IR imaging, MA
1979-1985 Honeywell Electro Optics, senior designer, MA
1975-1979 Boston University Medical School, research assistant; US EPA, system engineer; Harvard University, technical translator, MA
NON-PROFIT & VOLUNTEER ACTIVITIES
2009- Non-Profit Net, Vice President and board member
2018- Art Without Borders, Founding member and director
2010-2014 Lexington Arts Council, board member
2012-2019 Cambridge Art Association, board member
2011-2013 Lexpressas Women’s Soccer, board member
EDUCATION
1990-2015 Hochschule der Künste & Academy for the Arts, Die Etage, MFA in Visual Arts & Stage Design
In Europe: Studied with A. Woron, K. Denhardt, M. Knizak, J. Hendrikse & P. Erskine. In USA: Studied with A. Gropius, T. Harney, J. Imber
1982 Boston University, MS in Systems Engineering
1979 Boston University, BS in Biomedical Engineering