Artist Interview: Ara Zeibarian

This interview is with Upper Darby, Pennsylvania artist, Ara Zeibarian. His process includes keeping an "idea book" which details possible formal moves to incorporate into his works yet to come. Zeibarian also enjoys being liberated by "winging it" and how this practice "uncovers things I didn't know I was caring about." Listen below for more!

 I was a teenage chimera

5' x 5' acrylic on canvas 2012

 Vagabond Mondays

5' x 5' acrylic on canvas 2012

 Wissahikon Drive

5' x 5' acrylic on canvas 2012

 Favorite shirt (bonwit teller)

5' x 5' acrylic on canvas 2012

 Damn happiness

5' x 5' acrylic on canvas 2012

The artist's website: Ara Zeibarian 

Audio interview: 

Artists etc. mentioned in the interview:

 Leonardo da Vinci

Nicolas Poussin

Minas Avetissian

Hagop Hagopian

Piet Mondrian

Anselm Kiefer

Sean Scully

 Elizabeth Murray

Cy Twombly

Julian Schnabel

Georg Baselitz

Susan Rothenberg

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jonathan Lasker

Clyfford Still

Arshile Gorky
  Mario Merz
 Gilberto Zorio
 Jannis Kounellis

(podcast intro/outro music by Ani DiFranco and Utah Phillips)