Ara studied art and business at North Adams State

College, and received his MBA from Northeastern

University. Working entirely freehand, he paints in

the traditional style and draws in the abstract style.

Ara then utilizes a pixelization texturing process and

reproduces his work on photographic paper. Each

archival print is signed, numbered, and displayed

under glass. Ara has been featured on WBZ’s

New England Weekend, and his work has been 

chosen by the Museum Council of the Museum of

Fine Arts, Boston for their 2008 Summer Party.

Ara's fiction writing combines his love for mid-

twentieth century historical texts as well as the

mystery fiction of the era (1935-55), as exemplified

in the dramatic radio plays of the works of

Cornell Woolrich, T.S. Striblin,W.F. Harvey,

Daschiell Hammett, John Dickson Carr, Geoffery

Household, and C.E. Montague.

By profession Ara is a senior marketing communications writer for a leading medical device company.

June 2008

Summer Party silent art auction, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

February 2008

Pen and Ink Abstract Flowers 2007-2008,  Chelmsford Public Library

May 2007

"A Celebration of 100",  Bedford, MA

A 30-piece, one-day show to celebrate my 100th artwork sold

March 2007

Negative Prints: a Debut,  Brew'd Awakening Coffeehaus, Lowell, MA

July 2006- ongoing

Miniatures and Other Artworks,  Starbucks, Bedford, MA

July 2005

37th annual Fourth of July Art Show, Chelmsford, MA (juried)

Chelmsford Art Society

Abstract & Traditional,  Chelmsford Public Library, Chelmsford, MA   

Forty piece solo show

March – May 2004

Debut,  Wakefield Cooperative Bank, Wakefield, MA

Thirty-two piece solo show

Honorable Mention, awarded by the Chelmsford Art Society for "Dominature Placidontis",

professional mixed media category, July 2007