Vahé Peroomian

Contemporary Photograph, More Majestic than Everest, Armenia view.

Title: A Landscape Aglow Location: Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah Edition: 1 of 5, signed by artist Description: The Sun kisses the horizon, and then quickly departs that embrace to climb the sky. Shadows shorten, golden light fades, morning arrives. In that brief instant between...

Title: Nuclear Fusion, Iceland Location: Iceland Edition: 1 of 5, signed by artist Description: Nuclear fusion powers the Sun as its last rays reflect from the frozen lakes of Iceland. This was photographed as I was standing on the brittle ice of a frozen lake, wary of each footstep I took toward the setting Sun. Vahé Peroomian is a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Southern California (USC). He received a Ph.D. in Physics from UCLA in March, 1994, specializing in numerical simulations of space plasmas, and carried out research in that field for 25 years before transitioning into a full- time teaching and innovative pedagogy position at USC. Vahé’s love of photography as a child and young adult blossomed into a passion more than twenty years ago. Since then, he has taken every opportunity to pursue his fascination with photography and the beauty of the Gaian landscape. He is a self-trained photographer, and prefers a hands-on approach and independent experimentation with photographic styles and techniques. He has found that the same off-the-wall approach that works in solving physics problems helps him see landscapes in a new light as well. The self-similar shapes in landscapes, and the play between cloud...

An abstract construct 2018 19x20 in . unframed (we'll frame upon customer request). Very colorful composition. His artwork has been published in two books “colors and Words: From Armenian and Beyond” and “Past Does Not yet Melt here”, the latter was the result of a journey to the result of a journey to the top of Mount Ararat...

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These Mountains belong to the thousands of Reindeers grazing through northern Sweden. We as humans are mere visitors and shouldn't leave any trace. It is important for us never to forget that. All photos are printed on a EPSON 9900 STYLUS PRO and on Fine Art Hahnemühle Matt FineArt PhotoRag 308 gsm 100% Cotton Paper, which is the best paper to create high quality fine art prints. This combination complies with the highest archival standards according to the very well known Willhelm-Research archival authority. Every print is only printed on demand...

For those of us who live in the West, mountains are more than just landmarks; they dene a sense of home. We have memories associated with our mountains; those we grew up surrounded by; remembering the rst time we saw one, and the people we visited them with. This gave us all a larger sense of where we locate home. During our recent pandemic, home shrunk to the walls that surrounded us. Real experiences became mediated through computers and the Internet – but something felt lost: a living connection with things bigger than ourselves. But we kept our memories – waiting to be triggered by a photograph or reminder of the mountains that could bring back that sense of the sublime. Mountains and nature have long been places of peace and refuge. There are few emotions about places for which adequate single words exist. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the word sublime arose to describe the feelings that the natural world can evoke in us. At home, on my kitchen table, I have been trying to capture something of that sublime in bits of plastic. Using geographical data from the Internet, I used my 3D printer to make the memories of those mountains tangible. With a small fog machine, I create atmospheres and clouds. Sunlight through a window illuminates some, while others were lit with a variety of sources including ber optic lights used for microscopy. For me, these images evoke the place I call home; and remind me that it is our memories that make a place special. At Home in the West was created as a companion to Yosemite: Seeking Sublime, which premiered at photo-eye Gallery in November 2020. In December of that year, work from that series was invited to the Art of Staying at Home; Artists in the Time of Corona exhibition at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Egypt, where I was the only U.S. artist from eight countries included. Additional works from that series will soon be exhibited at the Krakow Triennial in Poland and at the Earth Photo...

20th Century School, Mountain Landscape, Black and White Photograph, unsigned, ebonized wood frame. Image: 19.25" H x 15.25" W; frame: 28.5" H x 24.5" W. Provenance: From a New York ...

Taken in Great Sand Dunes National Park at dawn. The shadow play across the dune lends to a constantly changing landscape, but is always one of serenity in first light. :: Photograp...