
Yari Ostovany
Iranian-American · b. 1962 · San Francisco Bay Area
Iranian-born abstract painter, in the United States since 1978 and working in the San Francisco Bay Area since the early 1990s. He calls what he does atmospheric abstraction: paintings that begin with calligraphic marks and then dissolve through layers of wash and glaze, added, scoured into and scraped away. His series take their names from Persian mystical literature, Zen and Taoist thought, music and poetry.
