Codex Persicus 2, 2026
I approach painting as the visual evidence of, and not a report on, an experience; not a representation of spiritual energy but a translation of it into light and texture, navigating the space between stasis and movement, between emergence and disappearance.
Born in Iran in 1962, Yari Ostovany moved to the United States at the age of 16. He pursued his artistic studies first at the University of Nevada – Reno, and later earned an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1995.