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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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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) and her BA is from
Bennington College in Vermont where she received the
Sandra Kessleman Slotnik and the Ella Woodner
Macey Awards for outstanding work and leadership in
the arts (1982). For several years she studied with Julio
Alpuy, a preeminent member of the Atelier of Joaquin
Torres Garcia, founder of Universal Constructivism.
She has lived in the US, Iran, Spain, Italy, the
Philippines, and Cyprus, with extensive time spent
traveling in Europe, Indonesia, and Morocco and
throughout the United States.
For over two decades, Houshmand’s work has been
exhibited in galleries in Europe and the US, including
New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Santa Fe,
Barcelona, Brussels and Copenhagen. She is a 2005
recipient of the NY State Council on the Arts
Decentralization Grant and a 2006 grant recipient from
the US Government for “21st Century American Women
Artists”. Her major exhibitions include “Totem” at the
Boca Raton Museum of Art” in Florida, “21st Century
American Women Artists” at Truman Hall, US Mission
to NATO in Brussels, Belgium, “Evolving Perceptions”
at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and
Galeria Rene Metras and Marianovich Arte in
Barcelona, Spain.
Ms. Houshmand has taught art at, Penn State, The Art
Institute of Pittsburgh and Escola Massana, the
municipal art college of Barcelona, Spain. She
currently is an adjunct professor at SUNY Delhi.
Roshan Houshmand’s work is in private collections in
Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Costa Rica, England,
Germany, Cyprus, Italy and the United States.