Creator Record
Metadata
Name |
Krikorian, Leo |
Dates & places of birth and death |
B. 1922, Fowler, California D. 2005, Yreka, California |
Nationality |
American |
Notes |
Leo Krikorian began his artistic career in the mid 1940's. He began my paintings with the cubistic tradition toward the now popular know color field painting. Late in the late 1970's Krikorian established permanent residence in France when he began experimenting with fluctuating space, enhancing it with vibrant colors and the use of reverse symmetry approaching the oriental yin-yang symbol. The space is always inferred never arriving at a final conclusion. The spectator realize a new relationship in mass, form, color and line creating a continuous process of exploration and a field of meditation which he refers to as implied space. |
Relationships |
Genie Stressing (niece) |
Places of residence |
San Francisco, California; Paris, France; Yreka, California |
Role |
Artist |
Education |
After World War II, Leo enrolled at the Art Center School in Los Angeles to study photography under Ansel Adams. In 1947 when attending Black Mountain College, in North Carolina, he studied under Josef Albers and Ilya Bolotowsky. He returned to California to attend the San Francisco Institute of Fine Arts and studied under Miner White and once again under the brilliant Ansel Adams. |
