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The paintings produced by Roshan Houshmand have been accurately described as "melodic fusions of the eastern and western traditions. And here lies the vigor of her art: to make the east a metaphor of the west and vice versa.

"Calligraphy, subtlest of mutations, are transformed dramatically to assume familiar shapes. "Familiar only because the images speak with the appropriate elan for the western context of experience. The mood evoked is a perfect harmonious mixture of the inexplicable mystery of Persian culture and the transcendent spirituality of the western abstraction. All attained in the most original of schemes and with eclecticism sedulously proscribed.  Never before have these dichotomous spirits been so contiguous and their boundaries so inseparably fused."

Roshan Houshmand's superb technique brings to mind work of the modern masters, demonstrating an intuitive study of light and form and nobility of execution.

Roshan Houshmand graduated with a BA degree from Bennington College in 1982.  She received her MA and MFA degrees from the Dominican University of Illinois' graduate program in Florence, Italy, where she focused on painting and art history.

In 1985 and 1989 she apprenticed with Julio Alpuy, one of the preeminent artists of the Atelier of Joaquin Torres-Garcia, founder of Universal Constructivism. Ms. Houshmand then spent ten years living and painting in Spain, studying the works of the Spanish masters.

Roshan Houshmand is a 2005 recipient of a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program administered in Delaware County by the Roxbury Arts Group. In 2006 Roshan received a US Government grant to attend the opening reception of "21st Century American Women

Artists" at the US Mission to NATO in Brussels, Belgium where her work was exhibited.

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