Sabzi

Long Time Ago

Garden Party

910577 Passionate Dance

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Image Size 40 x 30

Meaning of Night

910845 Edge of Night

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Image Size 30 x 24

908742 Bluebird

Midnight Romance

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Image Size 45 x 15

Image Size 40 x 20

Tango II

Adam and Eve

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Image Size 44 x 35

Image Size 51 x 40

Night Falls

Sonnata

Serigraph on Canvas

Enhanced Serigraph on Canvas

Image Size 40 x 30

Image Size 50 x 40

"My artistic inspiration the very basis of form and color for my work comes from my childhood memories of Persian rugs designed and weaved by my mother. I watched her for hours creating gorgeous patterns, hues and textures, her fingers dancing across the loom the designs and shapes of my current work took form. creations flow from the same source of energy and creativity that inspired my mother " ...Sabzi

Anticipation

Giclée on Canvas or Paper

Image Size 30 x 37-1/2

Sabzi's subjects are almost always women, beautiful, graceful, taciturn and lugubrious, they reflect solitude. His women are Madonna's, modern goddesses, and martyred saints whose elongated forms suggest instability and internal conflict. Their anonymous faces transform them into religious icons that transcend and defy the demands of reality. Yet, other paintings reflect warmth, charm, gayety, happiness, and his undisputed love and admiration for women.

Sabzi's paintings resonate both eastern and western philosophies. His rich Persian heritage provides him with ancient images and sentimental Persian themes and memories of innocence. The Western source of influence comes from one of the most creative moments of modernism of Cezanne and Matisse.

Sabzi's debt to modernism, especially Matisse, is irrefutable. His earthy hues of pale greens, yellows, purples and reds illuminate the settings and inspire the forms with unique inner vibrations. The treatment of the human face as luminous geometric planes, though schematic, is nevertheless a profound statement of the artist's quest for spirituality.

Sabzi goes beyond Matisse and creates spatially revolving worlds that are post-modern. Reflections of images in mirrors, for example, are emotionally breath taking, assuming a life of their own. The effect is a powerful attempt at multiplicity of emotional representation. Here the fantastic is treated as ordinary and the rich fabrics of the paintings assume intimate unveilings.

Sabzi acknowledges in his paintings the historical, stylistic or cultural. The sheer luminosity of his spaces contrasting sharply with the somber moods of his figures appear at first to be contrary but soon protent to be valid and potent to the viewer.

Shooting Star

Enhanced Giclée on Canvas

Image Size 22 x 44

Two Dimensions

Giclée on Canvas or Paper

Image Size 20 x 16

Magical Dream

Enhanced Giclée on Canvas

Image Size 36 x 54

New Moon

Giclée on Canvas or Paper

Image Size 40 x 32

Born in Ahwaz, Iran, Sabzi started painting at the age of twelve and was encouraged in his early progression as an artist by his parents and inspiring teachers. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Engineering at the University of Jundi Shapur. ?The best part of agriculture was the purity of its primal spaces,? he says, explaining his early sensitivity to artistic concepts. Sabzi?s early works were primarily realistic, exploring the historical and cultural themes of his homeland. His departure from Iran during the Khomeini regime brought him to Germany and then the United States. This exile provided him the opportunity to explore new artistic influences, and he began to work in abstract and figurative styles.

MODERN GODDESSES Sabzi?s subjects are almost always women -- beautiful, graceful, taciturn and melancholy; they reflect love, mystery and solitude. His women are Madonnas, modern goddesses and martyred saints whose elongated forms suggest instability and internal conflict. According to Sabzi, their anonymous faces make them into religious icons that transcend and defy the demands of reality -- reflecting warmth, charm, happiness, and his undisputed love and admiration for women. His paintings resonate both Eastern and Western philosophies. His rich Persian heritage provides him with ancient images, sentimental Persian themes and memories of innocence. He draws from the Western influence of modernism found in the works of Klee, Cezanne, Matisse and Bonnard.

A QUEST FOR SPIRITUALITY His debt to modernism, especially to Matisse, is irrefutable. Earthy hues of pale greens, yellows, purples and reds illuminate the settings and inspire the forms with unique inner vibrations. Though schematic, the treatment of the human face as luminous geometric planes is a profound statement of the artist?s quest for spirituality. Sabzi goes beyond Matisse and creates spatially-revolving, post-modern worlds. Images reflected in mirrors assume a life of their own. The effect is a powerful multiplicity of emotional representation. Here the fantastic is treated as ordinary and the rich fabrics of the paintings resonate intimacy. An accomplished abstract painter, Sabzi?s passion for the spiritual is represented in the open spaces, symbolism and intricate patterns that make up the backgrounds of his compositions. Juxtaposing the complex feelings, body language and attitudes of his predominantly female figures against a backdrop of shapes and forms in space, Sabzi uses texture, lines and color to make artistic statements about love and beauty.

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