Silicon Wafer Art

Sohil School, Annual Art Show, Tehran, Iran 1972

Behzad Academy of Art, Annual Juried Art Show, Tehran, Iran 1973-74

Pullen Park Art Show, Raleigh, NC, Spring 1979

Saturday On the Green, Raleigh, NC, Spring 1979

Cameron Village Art Is, Raleigh, NC, Spring 1979 - Second Prize

Highwood Racquet Club, Group Show, Raleigh, NC, Summer 1979

McGuin, Clark, Hillman - Display - Raleigh, NC, 1979 - Second Prize

TDK Display, Raleigh, NC Fall 1979 - Third Prize

NC Council on Status of Woman, Group Show, Raleigh, NC, 1979

Wake County Artist Exhibition, Juried Show, Raleigh, NC, Spring 1980

Palette Gallery, One Woman Show, Cary, NC Spring 1980

Saturday On the Green, Raleigh, NC, Spring 1980 - Third Prize

WestEnd Gallery, One woman Show, Winston-Salem, NC, Spring 1980

Cameron Village Art is, Raleigh, NC, Summer 1980 - Second Prize

Garden Gallery, Group Show, Raleigh, NC, Summer 1980

NC Council on Status of Woman, One Woman Show, Raleigh, NC, Fall 1980

Garden Gallery, Group Show, Raleigh, NC Winter 1981

Private Showing at Dr. and Mrs. Reid, Frederick, MD, Spring 1981 - Sold Out

Art at the Falls, Raleigh, NC, Summer 1981 - First Prize

Cameron Village Art Is, Raleigh, NC, Fall 1981 - Second Prize

Greensboro Artist League, Juried by Barbara Nechis, Greensboro, NC, Spring 1984

Showcase 89, Juried show, Beaverton, OR, Fall 1989

Art Is, Lake Oswego, Oregon, Summer 90 - Honorable Mention

Showcase 94, Juried show, Beaverton, OR, Fall 1994

Affairs of the Art, Tigard, Oregon, summer 1995 - Second Prize Watermedia - First Prize Watercolor

Rose Festival Art Show, Juried show, Portland, OR, Spring 1996

Gallery 33, group show, Portland, OR, Winter 1999
Street of Dreams, Roche Bobois/J West Design, Portland, OR Summer 1999
Street of Dreams, Roche Bobois/J West Design, Portland, OR Summer 2000

Gallery 33, Portland Oregon August 2000, Hyperspace, One Woman Show, Portland Oregon, Summer 2000
Parker Furniture Art Show, Portland Oregon, Fall 2000
Belinki & DuPrey, Portland Oregon, January 2001
Fifth Avenue Suits, Portland Oregon, August 2001
Montinore Vineyard, Forest Grove, Oregon, June 2002

 

My Biography

When I came to this country, fresh from art school in Tehran, Iran, I had no idea that my training in Persian Miniatures would influence me for the rest of my life! In Iran I was fortunate to study under Master Mahmood Farshchian, the master of Persian Miniatures in our time.

I have been painting over twenty-five years. Staying very close to water media,  Persian Miniatures, and influenced by western watercolorist.

When my son was born in ninety-one, I found that watercolors were hard to do with a new baby, so I stopped painting for a while. About three years later by accident, I came across jewelry designer Julie Rogers, who was giving a demonstration of a material called "friendly plastic". Her workshop helped me realized that craft projects might be a way to express my art at that point. I began making my brooches as fun pieces for friends. My friends gave it to their friends and so on did my business developed.

Still I missed painting tremendously.

What I like about my brooches is that they change every time I look at them. Also, it seems that other people see different things in them than I do. That intrigued me; they were like little Persian Miniatures. I decided to paint them. My urge was to paint them large! I was so used to painting miniatures and other themes on a small scale that it was a tough-break through for me. I ended up with large pieces of paper full of small paintings! Thanks to many days in Michael Schlicting and Barbara Nechis workshops, I made the breakthrough I needed. I still enjoy sitting down  to design and draw and think on the scale of five and six zero brushes, but I also enjoy standing up and holding the two inch brush in hand and liberating myself from the small and controlled paintings that I know so well.

I hope you enjoy looking at my work as much as I enjoyed making them.

Mojdeh

Mojdeh: I want you to take everything you learned about watercolors and throw it out of your mind. Now think of everything they said you can't do with watercolors.....that is what I do.

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Last edit 08/01/2003