Yari Ostovany is an Iranian-born American abstract artist. He creates richly textured, layered color field paintings that explore processes of metamorphosis. He has lived in Tehran, Cologne, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Reno and is currently based in New York City. The paintings Ostovany creates, unfold over time, evolving as layers of pigment are added, washed out, covered over, scraped away, dissolved and then more layers added. He is attracted to the alchemistical transformation of formal elements like light, color, texture and space into compositions that are more than the sum of their disparate parts. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical traditions. He looks toward elements of Western and Eastern art, literature, spirituality, poetry and music to create an environment and a mindset conducive to his process, which is connected to Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. Ostovany’s works are included in many private collections around the world, as well as the collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut, the Pasargad Bank Museum in Tehran, and the Collection of the Art Department of the University of Nevada, Reno.
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Testament 7 (Abstract Painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Testament 7 (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystica...
Canvas, Oil
The Ship of Theseus 6 (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
The Ship of Theseus 6 (Abstract painting) Oil on canvas — Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementar...
Canvas, Oil
$4,745
H 29.93 in W 40.16 in
Fragments Of Poetry And Silence No. 39 (Abstract Painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Fragments Of Poetry And Silence No. 39 (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas - Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate an...
Canvas, Oil
Wanderer's Hymn 8
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
20" x 16" Unframed Original - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany 2021
Oil, Panel
Hymn of Remembrance
By Yari Ostovany
Located in Toronto, ON
16" x 20" Unframed Original - Oil on Canvas Hand Signed by Yari Ostovany 2022
Oil, Panel
Verse XLIX (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Verse XLIX (Abstract painting) Oil on paper — Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical t...
Paper, Oil
Verse L (Abstract painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
Verse L (Abstract painting) Oil on paper — Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementary mystical trad...
Paper, Oil
The Ship Of Theseus 4 (Abstract Painting)
By Yari Ostovany
Located in London, GB
The Ship Of Theseus 5 (Abstract Painting) Oil on canvas — Unframed Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a connection to multiple separate and yet complementar...
Canvas, Oil