Introducing Becky Yazdan.
These luscious paintings keep my attention because they are a shifty. Certain passages suggest spaces and objects i can almost recognize, and then I look again, and whatever i recognized has danced off to hide in the beautiful paint handling of colors, textures and gesture. Is this happening for anyone else?
Turns out, that shiftiness may be exactly Yazdan's point. All of her works begin with a footing in the real world of remembered experience, then move outward (or inward as the case may be) from there.
In the artist's words: "When I paint I try to find the balance between intuition and intellect, so that the process of painting becomes an active dialogue with the phenomena of nature. Much of my painting is done away from the canvas, whether I am running along the Westside Highway or lying in bed close to sleep. Running, like sleep, is a way to suppress the intellectualization of perceptual experience."
She has also done an intriguing series of small drawings on pages torn from literature that explores memory, such as the one below on the text of Nabokov's Speak Memory.
Prices range from $200 - $300 for small paintings (8"x10", 11"x14), $500 - $1200 for mid-size (36" x 42", 48" X 36") and start at $2000 for the large ones (60" x 72", 84" x 72").
Inquiries? Please contact the artist directly via email, or you can go through The Brooklyn Collective which has Becky's work on exhibition right now in their gallery at 198 Columbia Street, between Sackett and Degraw in Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Collective features a lively array of work by other photographers, painters, sculptors, industrial designers and fashion designers as well.
*The artist's own website is linked through her name at the top of the post.
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anyone who enjoys these colors and doesn't know manjit bawa should check out his work. if i were filthy rich, there would be a bawa in my life.
These are wonderful works of art. The dynamics of the forms themselves and paint handling remind me of the painter Nicolas De Stael.
I like these a lot. Thomas, I agree that some of them are like de Stael.
Love it, love it, love it. We'd be proud to have one of these on our wall.
beatiful. made me think of shimmery rothkos
absolutely beautiful. a bit of hans hoffman with the playfulness of miro.
Breathtaking -- even online. But web site doesn't do these justice. I've seen her work at various openings, there's always a few that jump out that you want to take home with you!
sorry, but this doesn't do anything for me. i like abstract art, but this looks like something a 3 year old could do.
Her color choices are interesting but the pieces themselves... blah. I do like abstract stuff, though. I have 6 pieces by Dana Boettger, for instance (http://www.dboettger.com), including the one on the cover of the book on the front page of her site.
Fantastic. Pure and simple. Luscious describes them best and, for the blu 5/11/06 who says they lok like something a 3 year old could do...that's no easy achievement when one is no longer 3. But, we all differ in taste and that's life's beauty. I find this artist's work superb.
I love your work. it is great. i love all your pantings. thay are nice. iam 7 yars old. how old are you? what do you like doing? why do like panting? I like panting becase you use pants. also becase you draw things. did I menshon I love your artwork? I think so. I have 7 pets. do you have any pets?
Your work is appreciable.Could i join you too.I'm also a painter but i rarely made paintings.I didn't have any painting qualification.It's a god gift for me. I also used to make paintings by computer mouse. You can see them at: www.painterspark.blogspot.com
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