Vahe Berberian

A Painter, novelist, playwright, actor, and director, Vahe Berberian directs his boundless creativity into seemingly every medium imaginable. It is impossible to separate the artist from the man, or the painter from the writer. Having studied under the acclaimed the painter Paul Giragossian, with whom he shares an Armenian-Lebanese heritage, Berberian’s early paintings often featured similarly elongated abstracted figures, who, despite the canvases’ bright palettes, emanate a sense of foreboding. Over time, his style grew increasingly abstract, even minimalist as he stripped away “everything that was decorative or didactic” in order to better reflect his raw emotions. To Berberian, painting is a physical process, “a kind of a dance, where my body and soul harmonize and move together,” he says, “and this is why music has become an integral part of the process of painting.”