Today we’d like to introduce you to Hakob Hakobyan.
Hakob is New York-based contemporary artist, was born in 1983 in Echmiadzin, Armenia, to an artistic family. Hakob’s father Kajik Hakobyan is a well-known artist painter, and it is through his father that Hakob first became exposed to the art world. Hakob first began drawing when he was six years old. He held his first private exhibition in Armenia just three years later. His second exhibition was held in the History Museum of Kiev, Ukraine, in 1994. Hakob was awarded the Special scholarship for Gifted Children (1993-1997) from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia. Hakob graduated from the Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts in 2007.
Even during his time as a student, he participated in various group exhibitions and festivals such as Armenia Is my Fatherland, the Color of Jazz, and the Exhibition of Young Artists of Armenia. Hakob held yet another private exhibition at the Hi-Art Hall Gallery in Yerevan Armenia upon graduating. He is a member of the Armenian Artists Union since 2007. Hakob currently resides in New York, where he has an independent art studio.
Hakob, please kick things off for us. Tell us more about yourself, your inspirations and how you got to where you are today.
When you leaving native birds and clear, colorful sky trying to fly and see more high above the sky, leaving your inner feeling ,all your muse, inspiration and the character of your art since from childhood , moving to new clear blank page with a different new human souls , feelings, mentality, and weird faces but the same time you feel like you want that changes that’s what you want to see, feel and that’s where you want to be, but during the time your soul starts loosening the religion feeling dry inside you, life getting more black and white same time you regret what you left behind you and you ask yourself why am I here in this anxiety that’s where starts the struggles for new life, colors, and feeling.
But it’s getting worse every new day pulling you deep and deep, but that’s the time when you love the life you love the mornings fresh and bright passion in the air and your cup of coffee with a deep smoke of cigarette, your mind is full of mysterious inspirations and you creating by real situation by real beauty and life, now your soul is dry and your hands do not move you feel cold all over, and after all of this you start see some weird feelings around you “you scared” , scared of life, moments and even scared of your art that’s the time when I stopped myself creating, I start being alone love the darkness more than ever closed in my small space and covered with my all past memories. The reason I am here in this megapolis to clean up my soul and feel how the birds live, flying high above the sky but the pressure of present and the feeling of past start a huge war in me.
And the scarceness is all over me even my brush start getting dirty and my colors going down to dark, you start seeing the life different way everything was blind for me, that’s the time when I start looking for addictions good reasons for a brighter life ,reason to feel better and you start seeing the new life with different eyes but still scared, scared even to move because you don’t want to lose you, the past from yesterday and you scared to come outside and see the trees and human souls but same time loneliness is eating you from inside, and you need a soul who will get in you and will stay in you warming up your bones to make them move again, because without soul feels like your eyes are closed, and every minute you will pass out, you start seeing more white and black more pixelated and hoping everything will go to colors to love passion and feeling will come back slowly. I can feel again my deep morning breath and live the life.
I use to paint and be inspired by the life all beautiful faces and body’s around me, use to paint my life my every day but all this is gone now I only see a dark part and a small light at the end, and that’s the light what makes me get the brush to start doing creating again what helps me to stay on my legs and breath slowly looking the human soul what I lost in this anxiety and darkness. My brush starts painting all the small squares of the life describing each moment what I pass. Every new day it was getting more brighter, but the pixels are still in my mind that’s probably going to stay with me all my life until I paint the soul I am looking for and I am sure soul will be back my inner feelings never lied me it’s like very close but hard to get in again. Surviving with all this I started to feel the transfer to colors dots and pixels, and I feel like this is the color pixels of my way to feeling high above the sky, I start seeing the reason of all this scarceness and emptiness what was holding me breathing deep.
Can you give our readers some background on your art?
All my Art is about my past life and future dreams. I paint my dreams, the life what I have, happiness and surviving, that’s my life colors all comes from my soul. I put feeling and love in my artworks and made them live memory from my past life. Art is my life and the way how I walk and act in this reality.
When I opened my eyes, I saw great artwork, created by my father. I grew up in the art world. I saw and felt colors and mysterious art from my childhood. Now I draw. I draw what is beautiful what is ugly; I am trying to find a little l Light in big darkness. Actually, I draw everything I create my art from my feelings from my memory and dreams. Art is extremely important in my life; all my life is like art and creating.
Do you think conditions are generally improving for artists? What more can cities and communities do to improve conditions for artists?
Artists are in enough good conditions today, I am not talking about everyone, but all depends on the person. You have to work on yourself. There is a lot of opportunities today’s art life to become more successful.
What’s the best way for someone to check out your work and provide support?
People can google me Hakob Hakobyan Art.
Contact Info:
- Website: http://www.hakobhakobyanart.com/
- Phone: (347) 220-9037
- Email: hakobyan.hakob@gmail.com
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hakobhakobyan_art/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artistjakcob.hakobyan
- Twitter: https://twitter.com/HakobArt
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