"Aram's paintings, with their gorgeous and provoking palettes, refuse to understand these two sources as a binary. Such a bifurcation only serves Western modernism's insistence on self-referentiality and immanence."
"The organizing logic of the grid is precisely where order breaks down when it comes to understanding how line, shape, color, and arabesque relate to culture, and how cultures relate to each other."
"In a series of paintings that emphasized a vertical arrangement across the width of the canvas, interrupted by curving forms that evoked both the organic and the definitively non-organic."
"The colors - reds, grays, blue-greens, midnight blues, blacks, and even yellows - likewise sit in a strange space between the natural world and abstraction."
Kamrooz Aram's work blends Western modernist abstraction with Western Asian decorative traditions, challenging the binary perception of these styles. His paintings utilize a grid structure that breaks down traditional understandings of line, shape, and color in relation to culture. The artist's use of color creates a unique visual experience, evoking both organic and non-organic forms. His recent exhibitions showcase this interplay, emphasizing a vertical arrangement that complicates the viewer's perception of order and cultural connections.
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