Zarouhie Abdalian

Green Line | Powelton

Zarouhie Abdalian
Who you callin' gutter punk : recent engravings
Through January 2008
Green Line | Powelton, 3649 Lancaster Avenue

Zarouhie Abdalian's series of intimately scaled, exquisitely rendered engravings portray homeless youths. As engravings, hand-carved into copper, these portraits record acts of painstaking physical and mental exertion, determination, and care. The portraits describe individuals who are often indiscriminately and blindly labeled as "gutter punks" solely because of their status as homeless youth.

Zarouhie Abdalian grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from Tulane University. She has exhibited in New Orleans, Philadelphia, France, Spain, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and South Africa. In 2007, her illustrations were published The Color Inside, a children's book by Folwell Dunbar. Abdalian's work is held in many private collections and is in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and the Montgomery (Alabama) Museum of Fine Arts.

Abdalian currently lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she is the Artist-in-Residence at the Philadelphia Cathedral.

For more information, visit www.zarouhie.com.

Labels: Green Line Powelton, past, Zarouhie Abdalian

12/18/2007