Aazam Irilian

“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

Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic, curator and author