Paintings by Sirarpi Heghinian-Walzer will be on exhibit in the library’s Meeting Room Gallery during the months of November and December 2024.
The artist says of her work:
My poetic abstractions spring from meditations on nature and from memories that are distilled into single dramatic moments. The energetic surfaces imply an ongoing tension between freedom and containment, edging the viewer closer to that place where chaos can erupt into clarity. The deliberate juxtapositions of forms and exaggerations of color choices, provide clues to content and interpretation.
Sirarpi lives and works in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her artwork is in collections both nationally and internationally, and she has received awards while exhibiting her pieces in galleries across Europe and the United States. Sirarpi’s artistic journey is marked by representation in galleries such as Cove Gallery in Wellfleet, MA, GalaRay House in Lexington, MA, Honey Jones in Cambridge, MA, and SwapArt in Boston, MA.
In addition to her artistic pursuits, Sirarpi is actively involved in the nonprofit sector. She co-founded Art Without Borders and has contributed as a board member of the Cambridge Art Association, among others. Presently, Sirarpi holds the position of Vice President at Non-Profit Net in Massachusetts, concurrently serving as an executive coach for clients in the private and nonprofit sectors. She also acts as the principal of Consult and Design, a boutique IT consulting firm.
Sirarpi’s collaborative endeavors transcend continents, involving partnerships with artists such as Andrej Woron, Milan Knížák, and Peter Erskine in Europe, as well as Timothy Harney, Jon Imber, and Ati Gropius in the United States. Educationally, Sirarpi pursued biomedical systems engineering at Boston University, complemented by studies in painting and stage design at the Academy for Fine Arts “Die Etage” and Hochschule der Künste in Berlin, Germany.
For more information on Sirarpi Heghinian-Walzer’s work, visit: www.swalzer.com
Exhibitions are free and handicapped accessible. Exhibitions in the library Meeting Room are available for viewing whenever the library is open and the room is not in use for a meeting. Please check the library Program Calendar for availability.
At the beginning of each year, the Arts Committee of the Acton Memorial Library invites Massachusetts artists to submit work for consideration for upcoming exhibitions in the Meeting Room Gallery. More information is available on the library’s Artists Exhibition Opportunity page.