July 30, 2025 – October 28, 2025
Valencia Public Library, 23743 Valencia Blvd, Valencia, CA 91355
The City of Santa Clarita announces a new exhibition, “To Teeter on a Three Faced Ledge” by artist Demi Sedrakyan, on view July 30, 2025 – October 28, 2025, at the Valencia Library. This captivating collection showcases a body of work by Armenian artist Demi Sedrakyan whose paintings explore the sacred, care, and the embodied experience of migration. Through abstract compositions, the artist invites viewers into spaces that feel at once deeply personal and open, spaces shaped by memory, gesture, and devotion.
Care is central to the practice, not only as a theme but as a visual and material language. Surfaces are slowly built through layering, scraping, staining, and soft interruptions. Each mark a trace of a presence, a record of time and the human hand. This engagement with the painted surface becomes a kind of tactile attention, where process is an act of resilience.
The paintings reference specific forms. The architectural outlines of Armenian cathedrals, the fluid motion of migratory paths, and the spaces that exist in between, those that hold tension, care, and the sacred. These shapes emerge and dissolve within the compositions, hovering between abstraction and figuration.
Rooted in personal and inherited histories, the work maps unseen geographies: the movement of bodies across time, the stillness of sacred architecture, and the soft, persistent presence of care. Through paint, the artist creates a language that is tender and resilient, one that honors the complexity of what we carry and what we make.
