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Mark Sirdevan
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Onset Woman,  43.5 x 33.5 framed acrylic on canvas 

Artist’s Statement

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Art is a way of making sense of the world. These days we are assaulted by a vortex of images depicting national and global crises, from the COVID 19 pandemic to racial and economic injustice; from the insurrection against our democracy to geopolitical instability; from climate change to the economics of people on the move. People disappear. Places disappear. Businesses, homes, cultural institutions disappear. How do we understand it?

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My current painting series is titled MIGRANTS. It is an idiosyncratic meditation about people on the move, their psyches fragmented, their bodies adrift in an unstable world. Are we safe?

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Onset Woman shows a figure engulfed in yet confronting the myriad challenges. Hierarchical, resolute, reaching out she senses the way forward. What can we do?

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The values we need are in our evolution, our DNA. We have only to summon them and to move to action, responsibility, openness, tolerance and healing.

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Mark Sirdevan

298 Derby Street● West Newton, MA 02465
Phone: 617-290-2116: ● E-Mail: msirdevan@aol.com

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Exhibitions

  • Mosesian Center for the Arts Show Watertown MA We the People, 2020 

  • Newton Art Association show at Piano Craft Gallery Boston, 2020

  • Mosesian Center for the Arts show, Watertown MA Five star Regional, 2019 Honorable mention

  • Newton Art Association Annual Awards Show, 2017 Second prize

  • Motherbrook Center for the Arts, Dedham MA, 2017 Third Prize

  • Newton Free Library one person show, 2016

  • Newton Art Association James King Bonnar Show 2015, third prize

  • Kingston Gallery, Boston MA two solo shows, group shows, 1990-1994

  • Meridian Museum of Art, Meridian MS, competition, 1982

       Museum of Fine Arts Alexandria, Egypt, group show, 1981

  • Ward-Nasse Gallery New York, NY, group shows, 1975-76

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Grants 

National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1982

 

Teaching Experience

Harvard University, Carpenter Center for the Arts—Teaching Assistantships with the eminent anthropologist Edmund Snow Carpenter and New York-based painter Harvey Quaytman, 1982-84

 

Professional Development

Mark Sirdevan Fine Arts/Conservation—Established and developed a successful art restoration business, 1994-2018.

 

Education

BFA, School of Visual and Performing Arts, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY

MS, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston MA

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