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| Symmetry Magazine; http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/cms/?pid=1000499 Brookhaven National Laboratory, http://www.bnl.gov/60th/houshmand.asp US Mission to NATO; http://nato.usmission.gov/dossier/Women.asp |
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| "Roshan Houshmand's paintings are melodic fusions of the eastern and western traditions. And here lies the vigor of her art; to make the east a metaphor of the west and vice versa. Eastern textile designs, subtlest of mutations, are transformed dramatically to assume familiar shapes. Familiar only because the images speak with the appropriate elan for the western context of experience. The mood evoked is a perfect and harmonious mixture of the inexplicable mystery of Persian gardens and the transcendent spirituality of the western abstraction. All attained in the most original of schemes and with eclecticism sedulously proscribed. Never before have these dichotomous spirits been so contiguous and their boundaries so inseparably fused." Abbas Daneshvari California State University |
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| Roshan Houshmand’s abstract muted oils …resonate with painterly nuances of opaline delicacy. Strewn with a welter of iconic shapes and forms, and rendered in chromatic tones of faded glory, these convey a sense of portentous ruins, like reliquary frescoes from the ancient Mystery Religious. Houshmand’s cosmology is subtly female, softly evocative and almost hermetically abstract. Indeed, in this transcendent series of abstract paintings, Houshmand seems a kind of recording angel of lost and faded mysteries. Eric Bookhardt Gambit, New Orleans |
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| Roshan Houshmand is an Iranian-American artist who was born in 1961 in the Philippines. She was raised in the Philippines and Iran. Her MA and MFA are from Rosary College of Illinois Graduate Program in Florence, Italy, (1983, 84), (now Dominican University of Illinois), and her BA is from Bennington College in Vermont where she received the Ella Woodner Macey and the Sandra Kessleman Slotnik Awards for outstanding work and leadership in the arts (1982). In 1985-86 and 1990-91 she studied with Julio Alpuy, a preeminent member of the Atelier of Joaquin Torres Garcia, founder of Universal Constructivism. Ms. Houshmand has been exhibiting her work for over two decades in Europe and the US. She is a 2005 recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts Decentralization Grant and a 2006 grant recipient from the US State Department for the exhibition “21st Century American Women Artists” at the US Mission to NATO in Belgium. Her work has been included in “Totem” at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, “Evolving Perceptions” at The National Press Club in Washington, DC, and “21st Century American Women Artists” along with the works of Kiki Smith, Raine Bedsole, Marita Dingus, Karen Barth, Karen LaMonte, Annette Lemieux, Emily Richardson and Lisa Vershbow at Truman Hall, Brussels. In 2007 Houshmand’s physics-inspired paintings were featured on the Brookhaven National Laboratory’s website in commemoration of their sixtieth anniversary and in SYMMETRY, the joint Fermilab/SLAC physics publication. These works are also featured in the April 2008 edition of COSMOS magazine. Houshmand’s work is in the fall 2008 and spring 2009 issues of STUDIO VISIT MAGAZINE, published by The Open Studio Press. Roshan Houshmand’s work is in private collections in Denmark, Spain, UK, Germany, Belgium, Cyprus, Italy, Costa Rica and the United States and in corporate collections in Cyprus, Denmark and Spain. She has taught and lectured at Penn State University, the Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Winchester Graduate School of Art and La Massana in Barcelona. Currently she teaches at the State University of New York in Delhi, New York (SUNY Delhi). |
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