True story. When I was six months old, my first-born and only brother "accidently" started a house fire while our father was asleep. Fortunately, I was rescued when a passing milkman (this happened in 1952) saw smoking pouring out the window of the bedroom I was in and saved my life. To this day, I kid my older brother that he didn't realize, until I was born, that his lifelong ambition was to be an only child. There's a painting in that story.
Michael Mararian possesses a poetic propensity for taking traditionally cheerful images and concepts and turning them into frightening, yet humorous, tableaus. Focusing on children as the last bastion of innocence, Mararian draws on a diverse range of influences to deliver the peculiar ink work he aptly calls, M. Mararian's Inky Dreadfuls.
Raised as an only child in Massachusetts, Mararian delves into his fantasy of being a child among many. Primarily a self-taught artist and children's theater playwright, he is a graduate of the Art and Theater program at the University of Bridgeport as well having studied briefly at the Art Students League in New York City. Michael currently resides and practices his art in Buffalo, New York, with his wife Elizabeth and their three cats, 99, Mavis and Charlotte
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True story. When I was six months old, my first-born and only brother "accidently" started a house fire while our father was asleep. Fortunately, I was rescued when a passing milkman (this happened in 1952) saw smoking pouring out the window of the bedroom I was in and saved my life. To this day, I kid my older brother that he didn't realize, until I was born, that his lifelong ambition was to be an only child. There's a painting in that story.
I'm excited about the show this evening, though I sorta wish I hadn't peeked at your main site beforehand, good stuff!
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