43rd Beverly Hills artShow

Courtesy of Beverly Hills City

Some 240 Artists from all over California came together to show and sell thousands of their original art works, which ranged from classical paintings to glass grids, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the 43rd Beverly Hills Art Festival on Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22.

Beverly Gardens Park is the heart of The Beverly Hills artSHOW, a yearly free spring event, which runs along Santa Monica Boulevard, from Rodeo Drive to Rexford Drive.

The event was accompanied by a great weather and a wonderful live jazz music, and children’s art stations. The artShow attracted over 55,000 attendees over the weekend, from art lovers to Southern California art dealers in search of new art to add to their existing collections, as well as featured food trucks, beer and wine gardens.

“This show is mesmerizing! It is a pleasure to see all different artists from all over the nation, connected through the world of art,”

Ann Roberts, 25, art enthusiast.

All featured artists prepared their booths throughout the weekend so they may provide details on the pieces they create and the inspiration behind them. For Karo Martirosyan, The Beverly Hills artShow became a home for his very first show back in 2014.

On photo: Karo Martirosyan on the background of his very first artwork - 'Sunset.' Photo Credit: Araks Terteryan

“To create a visual sensation, there must be a strong connection between one’s mind, hands, and eyes,” said Martirosyan.

This artshow played a crucial role in his career, since he was able to meet his potential clients and promoters at this event, which made his carer blasted in two years. He gets inspiration from everything that happens in his life and around him. Karo is not a painter, he is an architect, and this is where his structured and ideally crafted detail comes into play.

Geometric wall hangings in different shapes and colors represent Martirosyan’s emotional side; through the use of vivid colors he transfers his feelings and thoughts that he has at the time he is working on the grids. "While visiting Japan and experiencing all of its beauty, I found myself in a moment of absolute presence on top of a mountain, when my eyes made contact with a sunset so beautiful that I realized I had to do everything in my power to capture it.”

Art admirers were able to speak face-to-face with artists and discuss their views on their style of art and their source of inspiration. The booth of artist Larisa Safaryan was filled with unique carvings on eggshells. Through her artwork Safaryan is trying to express her energy, and emotionality that she carries inside her. The eggs are very carefully carved and are very fragile, while looking on them one feels the power and energy those small, but very cautiously carved subjects have.

Larisa is very traditional and reserved which makes her shy, yet brave to face those strangers who came to her booth to admire or critique her art.

On photo: Tea-pot carved from an ostrich egg with wood elements

Photo Credit: Araks Terteryan

Her carvings on ostrich and parrot eggs are delicate yet very intense, which emit harmony and elegance. Larisa does not have an art background; all she needed for her creation were her delicate fingers and creative imagination.

“Some people dream of beauty, while I create it in my spare time,” Safaryan said.

Several artists introduced their art in a distinctive way; they painted while at the festival, letting the paint drip onto the canvas, while they move around canvas, even dance, or simply stand on the top of the unstretched canvas that is lying on the floor. Those techniques have been invented by one of the most prominent abstract expressionists - Jackson Pollock.

With the use of this technique, artists are able to achieve a more immediate means of creating their art. They choose tools, and the paint flows from their tool onto the canvas, without using traditional brushes.

On photo: Diana Carey, wearing her art piece- working pants.

Photo Credit: Araks Terteryan

“I am an American artist seeking the evanescence of Oriental landscape,”

Diana Carey said.

One of the most successful distinguishing artists using Pollock’s technique at the show was Carey. Aside from showcasing her art, she also made her work cloth as a the part of the exhibition. Carey chose to follow Jackson Pollock’s long shadow technique over expressionism eight years ago. What makes her art even more unique is that she has given some interesting tweaks by painting nature rather than devoting herself to abstraction alone.

“Carey’s works remain in our thoughts long after we have seen them, making her an artist of genuine accomplishment,”

said Carol Steinberg, one of the artists participating in the artshow.

Walking through the Beverly Gardens Park this weekend, even those, who accidentally happened to be there, were indulged in the world of art, which floated all over Garden’s ambiance.