Sam Derounian makes collaged sculptural forms and compositions using screen-printing, painting, and drawing processes. Using theatrical imagery and conventions in combination with a reductive visual language his work often evokes historical avant-garde idioms such as minimalism, modernist painting and de stijl. Recent works oscillate between the evocation of a psychological/emotional space and a critique of the notion that art, and more broadly language, is capable of this. Sam Derounian often employs a paired down vocabulary where objects are represented using their most stark and minimal signifiers in reductio ad absurdum of visual language itself. Sam graduated from painting and printmaking at Glasgow School of Art earlier this year. Throughout his time at GSA he worked on organising autonomous exhibitions such as Homemade Universe (2009) at 25 Duke Street (now the Duchy Gallery) and co-organized exhibitions at HOTEL GILCHRIST (49 West Princes Street) in 2010-11.
Upcoming:
BLIND PLOTTING (for Glasgow International Festival of the Visual Arts)
The Arches, Glasgow, w/ Bethan Hughes, Douglas Morland, Craig Mullholland, Rachel Frances Sharpe, Carrie Skinner, and Alice Stephan; 28th April – 7th May 2012
MANIFESTO 11: A COMEDY OF ERRORS (In Collaboration with The Mutual, for Glasgow International Festival of the Visual Arts)
The Lighthouse, Glasgow; w/ Nuno Direitinho (POR) Iben Elmstroem (DK) Kristen Gudmundsson (IS) Hallgerdur Hallgrimsdottir (IS) Katrine Holmgren (DK) Fabien Mar Ques (FR) Aurora Passero (NO) Tisa Pickering (US) Peter Sattler (AT) David Shushan (IL) Rachel Wright (UK); April 20th – May 7th 2012
SAM DEROUNIAN (Solo)
Bellshill Cultural Centre, Glasgow, September 10th – November 5th 2012
FRESH AIR 2013 SCULPTURE BIENNIALE
Quenington Sculpture Trust, Gloucestershire, 16th June – 7th July 2013 (Private view June 15th)