PUBLIC ART & INSTALLATIONS

Dancing With the Stars-3 Dancing with the Stars is on display for a temporary exhibition in downtown San Rafael, California until spring of 2013

Dancing With the Stars-2 Dancing with the Stars was on display at Geyserville California from November 2011 to October 2012

Allah Sculpture in Steel The sculpture is 6 feet tall and 4 feet wide base. Presently it is installed at Euphrat Museum of Art at De Anza College until March 17th 2012. In 2010 Fall, it was created specially to be installed at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art in North California. 2010 http://salmaarastu.com/home.php

DIGITAL CREATIONS

Evening chat       This painting is available as high quality Fine Art print on paper or canvas.Price: $48 per square foot. For more information call 510 868 4398.       Medium:   Mixed media on board       Size:   20       $ 1200.00

Neighbours       California Home Series       Medium:   Mixed media on board       Size:   18       $ 1200.00       http://salmaarastu.com/home.php

ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY PAINTINGS

My journey into the realm of unknown begins with the line as it is the ray of light for me. I am celebrating energy and movement of line in my paintings, drawings and sculptures. I have always followed inner rhythm and by listening to it I draw with continuous line sometimes forming figural compositions with connected figures and other times abstract formations. Since my exposure to Arabic Calligraphy during my stay in Middle East, I feel my line has become more lyrical and melodious.

I find myself yearning to find infinite possibilities of the lyrical line itself on large canvases. I just want to plunge myself into the pleasure of contemplating the abstract flow of the swelling lines, and form compositions of lines and fields within given space and enjoy the celebration of calligraphy through lyrical visions.

I use the same stroke of the brush for Arabic letters as I do for suggesting human forms.  Both are fluid as if temporary expressions of the eternal universal vibration and energy. There is a vague suggestion of hide-and-seek, where figures and space bond to show volume and deny it all at the same time. It is the line that performs both as a mark and as contour that charges space. These paintings are visually flowing, undulating spiral through space in hushed and deep tones connecting figures and ground in a spiritual union, a synthesis of contour, color and space.

My work is created through an ongoing process of introspection that involves action and reaction to a variety of materials.  My method is physical and meditative in a process that fills each canvas with moving lines and multi-layered textures. For me creating art means getting physically involved with the piece; scratching, sanding, and layering, adding details in pen and ink or materials like paper, rope, modeling paste, paper Mache or copper plate can all be used to create relief paintings that incorporate my cultural viewpoint to interpret contemporary political, social and spiritual issues. 

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PAINTINGS SCULPTURES ARABIC CALLIGRAPHY PAINTINGS

	The Fall Festival
	This painting is available as high quality Fine Art print on paper or canvas.Price: $48 per square foot. For more information call 510 868 4398. The Tragedy This painting is available as high quality Fine Art print on paper or canvas.Price: $48 per square foot. For more information call 510 868 4398. The Naming Ceremony http://salmaarastu.com/home.php

MULTI MEDIA, MULTI CULTURAL SPIRITUAL ARTIST

You Are Joy 

You are like water and we are like millstones
You are like wind & we are like dust
The wind is hidden, the dust is plainly seen
You are the invisible spring & we are your lush garden.

Man Ou Tu (I and You)

Your love lifts my soul from the body to the sky
And you lift me up out of the two worlds
I want your sun to teach my raindrops
So your heat can raise my soul upward like a cloud

Our Heros-Nirbhaya Jyoti

In today’s global world we are connected with all tragedies and joys of the world. Recent violence against women and younger generation has affected me deeply and I am trying to give it a positive turn for the peace of my own mind and peace of the world. Nirbhaya Jyoti, victim of the gang rape in Delhi, India, kept crying “Ma, clean my body, give me bath” and she was bathed in the light of God and purified. Let us not forget her….

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