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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 paintings clearly indicate her interest in (these) eternal issues. It is the world of the mind and spirit rather than of the physical and material. The paintings are freely created with a field full of paint and symbols. The surface is more of a tablet for notation and evocation than for any concern with perspective or didactics. The free paint application creates a misty, dreamlike environment that allows movement and a certain vagueness. One is tempted to interpret this perception as a magical surface that contains the embodiment of ritual, dream and mystery. They are so represented that the concept of voodoo readily comes to mind. From an art historical perspective, early Rothko, and particularly Gottlieb, paintings present a painted surface and symbols which are more structured and controlled. One is tempted to read their work like hieroglyphics, whereas here one takes Roshan’s work as a totality of parts which exist within the context or the work rather than on their own.” Roger L. Selby Boca Raton Museum of Art |
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| All material on this site is Copyrighted by Roshan Houshmand. Member of the Artists Rights Society. |
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