About The Artist

Nooshin Farahpour was born in Tehran and grew up close to the Alborz mountains. Her childhood was cultured, her father was a prominent architect, her late mother was a nascent artist and poet; yet her memories of those years are of being immersed in nature.

Her teenage years coincided with the revolution in Iran, leaving her options limited to expressing herself as a young woman. Via her perch on the cherry trees she observed everyday life, but when she climbed just far enough, she was in a world with no limit. The isolated state of looking within the space of the tree became the rapturous inspiration for her artistic vision. Here her intuitive understanding of allover abstraction began.

When Farahpour migrated to the United States, she attended Cal State Los Angeles and graduated from Loyola Marymount University. In the past decade, her studio practice has become focused on the space between nature and abstraction, between a cultural heritage and an environmental connection. Her loose representation of those years spent up in the cherry trees meet at the intersection of the symbolic and the sublime. She paints lived experience exalted as memories yet manifested as buoyant abstraction, saturated in the pursuit of the natural world’s authenticity.