About The Artist

Avo Dermikaelian is of Armenian descent, born in Lebanon. While going to school in Lebanon, he would also work with his dad in their auto body shop during the summer break. But his passion has always been art. Instead of working on cars, he would sit and draw his own comic book characters. After a year he would leave the body shop and work on painted panels and decorating walls.
At the age of 18 he decided he wanted to do more to advance his art career. He left for Paris, France in 1976 and attended art school. While going to school he would paint many pictures including portraits and landscapes to take care of himself financially.
But he would have to cut things short in Paris because of the war in Lebanon. His whole family would leave Lebanon and come to America, and He too would follow. He arrived in America in the later months of 1979 and got a job working for a sign company in South San Francisco, to make ends meets. While working for the sign company he would also do freelance work doing murals and painting projects.
After 3 years, in 1982 he decided to leave the sign company and freelance doing murals and signs on his own. Since 1982 Avo has been a freelance Artist doing hand painted signs and murals. But for the last 15 years he has been doing only murals and faux paintings and providing creative services to some of the interior designers that he has worked with. If you would like to have a mural project done for you, please feel free to email the artist.