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US Mission to NATO; http://nato.usmission.gov/dossier/Women.asp
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
…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
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).