- Professor Ricardo Viera,
Director / Curator, Lehigh University Art Galleries / Museum Operation Bethlehem, PA, August 2008
If these paintings attain their liveliness through a rubbing together of opposites at a conceptual level, a potent dynamism also operates within each composition in Arastu's painterly style.Broad areas of wash are given counterpoint by devotion to fine, rhythmic detail which is more than embroidery. It is the mark of Arastu's personal absorption of the stories she recasts.
-- William Zimmer
Art Critic, New York Times New York City, February 1994
In her work, the bodies are blended together. It isn't clear where one begins and one ends. Often all the figures are drawn with the same line. They are deliberately created as a whole, as a group, as an ensemble. The world Salma Arastu is helping us create is one in which the magic of communion plays a central role. Her subjects include people who, whatever they do, they do together. They initiate each other, they celebrate together, they grieve together, they pray together.
-- Pana Columbus
Producing Artistic Director, Circle of Stones Ritual Theater Ensemble Emmaus, PA, September 2004
The passion of love and inner peace is what inspires her to create exceptional works that speak to the spirit of humanity in all of us.
-- Ranjeet Pawar
Art Director, Monsoon Galleries Bethlehem, PA, January 2006
It is interesting, however, that the most recent work, structured to explore the contemporary artistic idiom, clearly displays elements encoded in the style of Indian miniatures. And indeed the works which recall this tradition are among the artist's strongest pieces. The blending of traditional and contemporary imagery shows the artist striving for a unique personal expression. Visual elements from numerous cultures, traditional and modern, Eastern and Western, are her tools.
-- Excerpt from a short essay, "Salma Arastu, Traditional and Contemporary Imagery," by Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art. This essay introduced the paintings by Ms. Arastu, in a solo exhibition at the Art Heritage Gallery, in New Delhi, India in March 1998.
Ms. Arastu believes in the ultimate victory of human dignity and in the continuity of human cycles. The impenetrable forms that arise from the amassing of the figures speak to this end and act as a beacon renewing the desire of humans for independence and determination.
My studio is located atSalma Arastu
Studio # 34, 2547 8th street,
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: 510 868 4398
Mobile: 484 554 6035
http://salmaarastu.com/home.php
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- Professor Ricardo Viera,
Director / Curator, Lehigh University Art Galleries / Museum Operation Bethlehem, PA, August 2008
If these paintings attain their liveliness through a rubbing together of opposites at a conceptual level, a potent dynamism also operates within each composition in Arastu's painterly style.Broad areas of wash are given counterpoint by devotion to fine, rhythmic detail which is more than embroidery. It is the mark of Arastu's personal absorption of the stories she recasts.
-- William Zimmer
Art Critic, New York Times New York City, February 1994
In her work, the bodies are blended together. It isn't clear where one begins and one ends. Often all the figures are drawn with the same line. They are deliberately created as a whole, as a group, as an ensemble. The world Salma Arastu is helping us create is one in which the magic of communion plays a central role. Her subjects include people who, whatever they do, they do together. They initiate each other, they celebrate together, they grieve together, they pray together.
-- Pana Columbus
Producing Artistic Director, Circle of Stones Ritual Theater Ensemble Emmaus, PA, September 2004
The passion of love and inner peace is what inspires her to create exceptional works that speak to the spirit of humanity in all of us.
-- Ranjeet Pawar
Art Director, Monsoon Galleries Bethlehem, PA, January 2006
It is interesting, however, that the most recent work, structured to explore the contemporary artistic idiom, clearly displays elements encoded in the style of Indian miniatures. And indeed the works which recall this tradition are among the artist's strongest pieces. The blending of traditional and contemporary imagery shows the artist striving for a unique personal expression. Visual elements from numerous cultures, traditional and modern, Eastern and Western, are her tools.
-- Excerpt from a short essay, "Salma Arastu, Traditional and Contemporary Imagery," by Charlotta Kotik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art. This essay introduced the paintings by Ms. Arastu, in a solo exhibition at the Art Heritage Gallery, in New Delhi, India in March 1998.
Ms. Arastu believes in the ultimate victory of human dignity and in the continuity of human cycles. The impenetrable forms that arise from the amassing of the figures speak to this end and act as a beacon renewing the desire of humans for independence and determination.
My studio is located atSalma Arastu
Studio # 34, 2547 8th street,
Berkeley, CA 94710
Phone: 510 868 4398
Mobile: 484 554 6035
http://salmaarastu.com/home.php
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