Crossroad Painting

Kaloust Guedel is an American artist born in Nicosia, Cyprus. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Guedel is very comfortable of pushing the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo. His most recent series extent the boundaries quite literally with the media, expanding beyond the edges of the canvas, as a reflection of the excesses of the capitalist system. A system whose goal is to produce profit with no consideration of consequences, including human and environmental. In consumerist social structure there is a mechanism which encourages constant expansion of limits to realize continual growth of profit. This factor is inserted into the fabric of our daily existence; as revealed by determinism, freedom of choice is illusory and society is imposed to function as a reliable producer of excess.