Rapture Painting

Lebanese-American, b.1949 in Beirut to Armenian Genocide survivors. Semi abstract figurative expressionist contemporary painter, Missak Terzian studied at Ecole d’Art Guvder in 1968 and graduated from London College of Printing in 1971. He held his first major art exhibition in 1984. Since then, the artist has participated in 129 exhibitions worldwide. His paintings are part of many collections in Europe, United States, the Middle East, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the Republic of China; namely the Saudi Royal family and prominent Lebanese political personalities. His works are on permanent display throughout Lebanon, at the bank Audi head office, the Armenian catholicossate of Cilicia museum, Haigazian university, the Sursock museum, the museum of Bzommar and the Bank of Sharjah head office. With an innate and primal impulse to create, figurative artist Missak Terzian is in timeless search for existentialism and is eager to record time and occurrences. “For me, painting is a visual testament of the mind, body and spirit. Distortion and exaggeration triggers a continuous search into an uknown semi-abstraction ” Missak Explains.