Beyond the Borders, Between the Trees

Kamrooz Aram

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Beyond the Borders, Between the Trees



Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York
February 20 - March 27, 2004



Kamrooz Aram, 25 and just out of art school, has seven semi-abstract paintings in his first solo show, each loosely based on patterns found in Persian carpets. In this case, the symmetrical floral and leaf forms of the originals are expressionistically loosened up and given a Baroque animation. They are also supplemented with other designs. Serpentine Mongol-style clouds lifted from miniature paintings drift around. Military camouflage patterns fill the lower part of several paintings. All of this detail is put forth in complicated ways, with paint laid on thick, streaked and stained, and scraped away.

-Holland Cotter, The New York Times



link: Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery

Night Vision (in Oriental Blue), 2004. Oil on canvas.

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Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York
February 20 - March 27, 2004

Kamrooz Aram, 25 and just out of art school, has seven semi-abstract paintings in his first solo show, each loosely based on patterns found in Persian carpets. In this case, the symmetrical floral and leaf forms of the originals are expressionistically loosened up and given a Baroque animation. They are also supplemented with other designs. Serpentine Mongol-style clouds lifted from miniature paintings drift around. Military camouflage patterns fill the lower part of several paintings. All of this detail is put forth in complicated ways, with paint laid on thick, streaked and stained, and scraped away.

-Holland Cotter, The New York Times

link: Oliver Kamm 5BE Gallery