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Artist Exhibitions:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Hunting Tavern Museum, Andes,
NY.
Spirit, Santa Fe, NM.
Galeria Rene Metras,
Barcelona, Spain.
Galeria Nota Bene, Cadaques,
Spain.
"Ritos y Gritos", Galerie
Denise Levy, Barcelona, Spain.
Galerie SIO, Calafell, Spain.
Sweetwater Center for the
Arts, Sewickley, PA.
Sadolin Inc., Copenhagen, DK.
Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, NM.
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Artist Reviews:
REVIEWS:
El Periodico, Barcelona,
Spain; El Pais, Barcelona,
Spain; New Orleans Gambit, New
Orleans, LA; The News, Boca
Raton, FL; Boca Thursday, Boca
Raton, FL; La Vanguardia,
Barcelona, Spain; ABC, Madrid,
Spain; Marte, Barcelona,
Spain;
Sun Sentinel, Fort Lauderdale,
FL; Post Gazette, Pittsburgh,
PA; North Hills News Record,
Pittsburgh, PA.
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Collections:
G. Carlson, NY
H. Stewart, NY
S. Aikens, AK
R. Uram, CA
E. Stilwell, FL
M. Schweitzer, Costa Rica
N. Spencer & M. Bufrun, UK
Stock Family, Germany
Stirling Family, NJ
Guardiola Family, Spain
B. Radice, FL
Molly Bonner, US
Alemi Family, VA
Sanjana Family, PA
Mirsafian Family, US
Law Family...
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Commissions:
2004 Big Apple Fest, NY, NY.
Public Art.
2002 Mainline Art Center,
Philadelphia, PA. Public Art.
1993 J. Iranzo, Valencia,
Spain. Mural Commission.
1992 BDM Architects,
Barcelona, Spain.
1991 Marianovich Arte,
Barcelona, Spain. Exterior
Mural.
1986 M. Lydia, Boca
Raton, FL. Commission.
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Artist Statement for Roshan Houshmand
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As an Iranian/American woman artist, the most significant aspect of making art is the unique fulfillment of psychic, spiritual and emotional needs. Life parallels art. Audacity combined with humility has offered me a life of extremes, in pursuit of meaning, in search of truth. In life as in art, the experiences have been motivated by intuition, guided by divine will, provoked by inquiry into the realms of memory, nature, emotion, and intellect. When I encounter a new relationship, situational or personal, I do not know where the association will go, or where it originates; life and creativity are cumulative processes. There is an implicit give and take, where material dictates my response, and then again, where I may direct the use of material; ideally these two dichotomies are fused. Suspended consciousness permits the expression of subconscious ideas and feelings.
Inasmuch as experiences are unique and cannot be repeated, the relationships of form and content, dark and light, the positive and the negative inspire synchronous progression. The method of application and the selection of substance are indispensable components of the whole picture. The exploration of color and form as a metaphor for emotions, via an organically cumulative process, crystallizes fragmentation into a visual "truth", based on the formal values of western art. It is the spiritual acting in mysterious ways, which empowers my work with a meaningful sense of soul, and an intelligent sense of coherence. The underlying force behind my existence, life and art, is change.
The concept of multiple layers, hidden and revealed, reflects states of change, in that every event in the visible world is the effect of an "image", as in Plato's notion of idea. Each layer addresses emotion and intellect, markings corresponding with incidents of life experienced, only to be covered by another experience, ritualistic in process, tactile in sense, and visual in perception. Displacement has inspired my reconsideration of relationships between art and life, between material and process, form and content.
The sensuality of the gardens, with perspective diminished in favor of pattern, with an elegance of calligraphic nature, recalls the influences of oriental art. The visual images presented are more iconic than surreal, highly personal in juxtapositions and associations, imparting a sense of divine purpose through the installation of life's organic fragments.
These paintings were originally inspired by images of bubble chambers from Brookhaven National Laboratory and CERN in the 1960’s and 70’s. The chambers tracked otherwise invisible charged particles as they zoomed through the detectors, leaving trails in their wakes. These spirals, curves and lines are the basis for this collection which I began several years ago. I found these particular spirals to be unique in their variations from the ubiquitous spirals of the Fibonacci series, so commonly found in art and nature. These trails from the bubble chambers are codes of information, conveying specific energies, charges and speeds, besides their primal, universally appealing visual patterns which have held tremendous beauty and spiritual powers across all cultures since the beginning of humanity.
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