Armen Eloyan - Composition with stamps

Armen Eloyan combines influences from street art and cartoons with references to great pioneers in painting such as Willem De Kooning and Philip Guston. He depicts a world in which familiar figures, often associated with our own childhoods, have lost all their innocence. “Composing a good painting is like composing a good joke,” the artist has said. Although Eloyan does not consider himself a writer, various storylines develop within his work. The characters in his paintings tell sardonic and melancholic tales, yet despite the heavy themes, Eloyan manages to seduce the viewer through the energy his canvases radiate.