Areg Elibekian was born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1970. He graduated from Yerevan’s Institute of Drama & Fine Arts in 1992. He has since moved to Montreal and travels to Paris every summer to paint. His works have been exhibited in Armenia, Lebanon, Germany, France, Canada, and the United States of America.

From 1988 to 1992, he participated in numerous exhibitions of the Association of Armenian Artists. His works have been part of the Elibekian family exhibitions at the International Art Center in Beirut, Lebanon, ALMA Gallery in Boston, Massachusetts, Gallery L’Oeil Reno Berg, in Brussels, and Studio 22, in Antwerp, Belgium. In 1998, he had a solo exhibition at the Gallery Hai Cie in Paris. He has recently been a part of the Three Generations of Armenian Art show at Gallery Z in Providence, Rhode Island.

Areg’s work is well defined, straightforward reading, implying solidity and permanence. His works mainly involve the bourgeoisie—the upper middle class, affluent society, the café society—who frequent bistros, sidewalk cafés, parks, and riverfronts.

His delineation of urban landscape is highly sophisticated as his paintings are consistent in quality, the subjects determined by architectural streets, parks, churches, and docks. His penchant toward impressionism has led Areg to a personal, consistent, and communicable view of man’s environment. He paints light-hearted scenes of recreation, applying large areas of bright color with superimposed flowing outlines, and, in his open-air views, impressionist-inflected studies of intense light and color.

List of Pieces:

1. Still Life with Fruits

2. Port De Marseille

3. Bistrot Castiglone II

4. Pont Alexandre

5. Rue de Buci

6. Bistro à Paris