Artist Statement

    I integrate illusion, imagination and fantasy as components to unify my compositions into shapes of color in my paintings. There is a m?lange of fanciful, witty and an occasional whimsical train of thought in them, always seeking for pictorial form. I celebrate life with ecstasy over passivity, movement over inertia and joy over melancholic outlook.

Education

     Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, B.A. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Faculty of Fine Arts, B.F.A. Bureau of Cartooning, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Diploma in Cartooning

Solo Exhibitions (Partial List)

 2001 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, Alabama

1999 Adele-Campbell Fine Art Gallery, Whistler, Canada

1998 Seaside Art Gallery, Nags Head, North Carolina

1998 Galerie Saint Dizier, Montreal, Canada

1998 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, Alabama

1996 Monty Stabler Galleries, Birmingham, Alabama

1995 Winton Park, Fairfield, Connecticut 1995 Galerie Klimantiris, Montreal, Canada

1994 Shepard Gallery, Whistler, Canada 1992 Artexpo, New York, NY

1991 Galerie DArt Josette Tilmant, St-Sauveur, Canada

1990 Green Gable Gallery, Oakville, Canada

1990 Gallery Collections, Windsor, Canada

1989 Galerie Klimantiris, Montreal, Canada

1986 Palais Palffy, Vienna, Austria

1986 Arabella Hotel, Munich, Germany

1985 Lambethway Art Gallery, London, Canada

1984 Galerie D?cor 76, Montreal West, Canada

1983 Hamazkain Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1981 Studio M-1 International, Montreal, Canada

Bibliography (Selected Partial List)

    Whos Who in American Art, 21st Edition, 1995-96 22nd Edition, 1997 1998 & 23rd Edition, 1999 2000 Reed Reference Publishing, New Providence, NJ.

James R. Nelson, Missakians Homage to the Masters Evokes an Old Avant Garde, The Birmingham News, Birmingham, Alabama, January 14, 1996.

Encyclopedia of Living Artists, 8th Edition, 1993 Artnetwork, Penn Valley, California - Laurie Mackenzie, With a Brush and a Song, The Monitor, Montreal, Canada, February 4, 1998.

Dr. Puzant Torigian, Berge Missakian And All That Jazz, The Armenian Reporter International, New York, NY, October 21, 1996

Claude Sauvage, Deux Peintres De Tetes Couronnees, MagazinArt, #3 Printemps, 1990, Montreal, Canada - Kultur Missakian, Suddeutsche Zeitung, Munich, Germany, April 7, 1986

The Artists Magazine, Jazz Up Your Still-Lifes with Missakian Cover Artist, March 1997, Cincinnati, Ohio

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Three Artists Studios, Collage, January-February 1997, Montreal, Canada

Bibliography (Selected Partial List)

    Whos Who in American Art, 21st Edition, 1995-96 22nd Edition, 1997 1998 & 23rd Edition, 1999 2000 Reed Reference Publishing, New Providence,