Aazam Irilian
Los Angeles, California
My paintings are metaphors for the stillness that arises from the chaotic experience of life.
MessageWith an extensive experience in a broad range of mediums Aazam Irilian is led by her passion for painting and sculpture. She is inspired by nature, where she is pulled into experiencing every curve, movement, texture, and fragrance by being present in any given moment. Using her hands as her tools, she creates paintings that appear as dreamlike images, becoming metaphors for the stillness that arises from the chaotic experience of life. By applying abstraction, she creates compositions and settings that generate tranquil poetic images blurring the boundaries of recognized and unknown.
Originally from Iran, Aazam has resided in Southern California for over forty years. With a Masters in Art Education she has been a working artist and art educator for over 30 years. She believes “being an artist is pouring one’s soul onto the canvas, carving it into a stone or molding it into clay. It is being able to free the mind to create beauty, to create mysteries and, to create long-lasting emotion for the viewer.” In her work time and memory always play a key role, where imagination and reality meet, meanings shift, and past and present fuse.
Statement
“Representing the undercurrent of what seems to be visible, my paintings are about a world beyond—inner and outer. Currents of energy in color and light, flowing, dancing, melting and blending into each other creating a scene that is fantastic and infinite.
Bringing forth all that is possible through imagination—mine as well as the viewer, to be lost in the moment, be and become one with what is present.
Multidimensional and unique, my paintings are created through combining minerals, acrylic ink, fabric dyes and oil on canvas. Layering of one or all mediums, results in crystal formation, and a sense of fluidity and translucency on the surface, complemented by organic lines to create movement and form.
Crystal formations on the canvas, representing the physicality of life—beautiful and intriguing, delicate and hard. The hardness of the surface is the life itself—filled with joy and challenges at the same time. The delicateness of the crystals, a testimony to the temporality and beauty of life in the same breath. Each crystal different than the next, present another layer of what exist in life—our diversity—formed from the same source becoming different in shape as they form onto the canvas."
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