About

John Berberian's interest in art started at an early age. While still at Providence Country Day , he was encouraged in his career by his art teacher, and upon graduation won the art award for "his sensitivity, originality, and excellence in drawing."

All of John's pencil drawings are self taught. An early exhibit was at Highland Court Retirement Center in Providence, RI. His exhibits in RI have included the Barrington and Cranston Public Libraries, the Hasbro Children's Hospital, the Scituate, and Warren and Wickford Art Festivals. He has also shown his work in the Mystic Art Festival in CT , and has his portraits on permanent display in the "Titanic" exhibit at the Marine Museum in Fall River, Ma.

John had a solo exhibit of eighteen portraits of Civil War officers and soldiers in the Cyclorama in the National Military park at Gettysburg, PA.

He was commissioned to draw and present the portraits of Julie Andrews and her husband, Blake Edwards, when she acepted an award from the RI International Film Festival.

John has had a successful month long solo exhibit at the Regency Plaza in downtown Providence, and recently was chosen to exhibit a six foot high drawing of "Buffalo Bill" Cody in the Atrium of the Power's Building on Capitol Hill. As a member of the Newport Museum Artists' Guild, John was asked to display his work at their annual "Art on the Lawn" exhibit this past September.

Critically , he has been acclaimed for the life-like depictions of his subjects, giving them "intensity and humanity". "John's pencil drawing has the kind of punch, clarity and intensity of the scene reminiscent of Norman Rockwell's use of technical mastery in the pursuit of vivid realism."

John welcomes inquiries for portraits from photographs.