a painter and potter

AZAR VAGHEFI

Azar Vaghefi is a very passionate artist who depicts nature, color and light in her artwork.

She is very inspired by the effect of sunlight when water runs on top of colorful stones, and she thrives to achieve the same magical feel through paint on canvas. She achieves this stained glass effect by braking shapes down to their geometric essence and overlapping transparent colors. She is also an expert on abstract expressionistic collage work. Her recent work incorporates a number of different materials on canvas. Be it pieces of wood or fabric, she creatively meshes objects and paint with one another, creating textures that would otherwise be impossible to achieve solely with oil paint. Layers of transparent paint over pieces of paper and fabric, creates a harmony with these objects and the canvas, uniting them in one highly expressive work of art.

When she was only 16, she received the first prize in the National Junior Painting Competition in Iran, and she never stopped painting after that. Graduating from Tehran Academy of Art, she got her PhD in Istanbul, Turkey.

She had a number of exhibitions all over Iran, Turkey and the USA. Some of the galleries she works with include the Art People Gallery in San Francisco, Aspect Gallery and San Francisco Women Artist Gallery. Currently she works in her studio in San Francisco.