With an extensive experience in a broad range of mediums Aazam Irilian is led by her passion for painting and sculpture. She is inspired by nature, where she is pulled into experiencing every curve, movement, texture, and fragrance by being present in any given moment. Using her hands as her tools, she creates paintings that appear as dreamlike images, becoming metaphors for the stillness that arises from the chaotic experience of life. By applying abstraction, she creates compositions and settings that generate tranquil poetic images blurring the boundaries of recognized and unknown.
Originally from Iran, Aazam has resided in Southern California for over forty years. With a Masters in Art Education she has been a working artist and art educator for over 30 years. She believes “being an artist is pouring one’s soul onto the canvas, carving it into a stone or molding it into clay. It is being able to free the mind to create beauty, to create mysteries and, to create long-lasting emotion for the viewer.” In her work time and memory always play a key role, where imagination and reality meet, meanings shift, and past and present fuse.
