Author: Shirzad

An explosion of light comes crackling through the branches as a trumpet Lilly heralds the dawning of a new age.  Below, crumbling idols are the vestiges of the old, and…

In the summer between my junior and senior year at college I had the easiest job I've ever had. I was the "Gallery Guard" at the Wriston Art Center at…

"Ultrasound" my latest painting, has been an exercise in channeling group creativity through my facebook page.  Almost every idea in it's development was contributed by people through comments on photos of the…

Under African Skies, Joe Berlinger's documentary about the making of Paul Simon's Graceland album, opened in New York and Los Angeles this week, and I was lucky enough to get…

I was recently invited to join some incredibly talented artists and musicians at Conception III. Since it's a group show, there's limited wall space for my paintings and most of…

Since my grandmother passed away recently, my folks have been clearing out her old apartment and finding closets full of art supplies - pristine boxes of oil paints, bundles of…

Been having a bit of an obsession with red recently. After painting a wall in my apartment burgundy, I had a bunch of leftover paint, so that's how I began…

The saxophone player and bassist in this painting emerged in a very rough form after a hurried improvisation, only to be abandoned for more than year. When I took it…

Toccata is one of my earliest works, and also one of the largest canvases I have ever attempted. It was started and completed on a dreary winter Saturday in 1994…

Here's a painting seventeen years in the making! I stretched the canvas myself in 1995 and created what could only be described as a juvenile homage to Dali's landscapes. It…