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Aazam Irilian
Capturing the undercurrent energy of what seems to be visible
Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic, curator and author
“Aazam has ancestors in art history—painters like Helen Frankenthaler who investigated flow, flatness, and saturation as an extension of both her body and her consciousness; or Anselm Kiefer and how he likes to bury his canvases in the earth to see what nature has to contribute. Petra Cortright, who uses digital interventions into conventional painting to expose the true mechanics of invention. Visionary artists, especially pioneers like Agnes Pelton and Emil Bisttram who sought to give fixed form to invisible forces and create prompts for interior questing. Georgia O’Keeffe, with her love of the fractal matrix behind all the world, and her feminized ideation of that energy…” continue reading
Dr. Betty Ann Brown, art historian, critic and curator
“Irilian’s lyrical abstract paintings … a quest for “intriguing and vast” worlds, “each more astonishing than the next” could be used to characterize her flow process in all of her painting series. And we as viewers are invited to enjoy the aesthetic pleasures of exploring such astonishing worlds with the artist.”
