Zarouhie Abdalian 

Having first appeared in her 2021 series of sculptures how many will die for the price of grain, Abdalian returns to the food grade bulk bag in four new prints entitled, flexible intermediate bulk container, 2022. Each print is made from impressions of the bags themselves, their woven bodies, handles, and stitching translated to ink and paper through an array of printmaking processes. Focused on excerpts that betray the human-made nature of the manufactured object, the prints, filled with subtleties, invite slow contemplation of a form fundamental to the production, storage, and transport of life-giving food stuffs.

BIO:

Zarouhie Abdalian’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA; LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA. Group exhibitions include the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; 5th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Secession, Vienna, Austria; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; MOSTYN, Wales; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Prospect.3 Biennial, New Orleans; the 8th Berlin Biennale; 9th Shanghai Biennale; CAFAM Biennale, Beijing; and the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Select publications include Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, and Art Review. Abdalian was a 2017–2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee and recipient of a 2020 Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters & Sculptors Grant.