Eleanor Ekserdjian

OPEN: 11am – 6pm

ARTIST TALK & FILM SCREENING: with Eleanor Ekserdjian
Saturday 20 September, 11:30am EST

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Continuing the concept of As It Is Now, a seasonal presentation in New York throughout September, Messums ORG continues with two further weeks of exhibitions bringing a new wave of artists from the United Kingdom and Australia to the US. With established spaces in London and Wiltshire, and a new site launching in Lowestoft in 2026, this New York chapter extends Messums’ ethos across the Atlantic. Messums will introduce audiences to three artists whose research-led work evokes memories of place.

Th presentation includes UK based artist Eleanor Ekserdjian, whose paintings and drawings recall and explore the expressible sense of place from her Armenian heritage, creating a visual dialogue between stillness and motion, film and mark making. Eleanor’s work will be shown alongside that of photographer Dr Yan Wang Preston and New York based artist Linda Sormin.

All three use location research as foundational to their practice, sharing a love and a longing that comes from memories of place. These are universal emotions actionable in us all and they speak to truths that help  shape thinking about our place within the world.

 

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Eleanor Ekserdjian

[ 1996
- Present ]
Eleanor Ekserdjian (b. 1996) is a painter and film artist. Ekserdjian’s practice involves projecting the moving image onto paper or canvas and drawing from and over it, her physical and emotional responses being made visible through rapid mark-making. These paintings and drawings become lyrical landscapes which explore her evolving emotional response to the film. Her most recent film and painting series was made during a six-week artist residency in Armenia, and explores cultural memory through landscape. Pepe Karmel, author of Abstract Art: A Global History, defined her work as ‘Poetic, elegant and mysterious — a kinetic, subjective transcription of the world into calligraphy.’
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