Stories Embedded in Abstract Landcapes: Paintings by Alaleh Ostad

The motivation for Alaleh Ostad's canvases can be found in nature's magnificence, yet as her profession has advanced the path in which that motivation is acknowledged has changed. Having since quite a while ago painted watercolor scenes, Ostad was supported by a craftsmanship history specialist companion to influence her pictures to extract, a move that she says let her "paint my emotions and not my reasoning." While she will regularly take a photograph of a specific spot she associates with it, her objective is not to just copy the look of the scene. Or maybe, it is to make an interpretation of that association into a picture that imparts the pith of the scene.

Working in oil on canvas, Ostad utilizes numerous aptitudes in her work. Her experience in design encourages her bring the three-dimensional part of each canvas to life, and also to make a dynamic feeling of surface. The little girl of an unmistakable calligrapher, she fuses the whirling lines and exact implications of that shape into her pictures, giving them a lucidity and transparency that pulls the watcher in. The craftsman lives and works in New York City.