(American) An Arizona artist, Masoud Yasami, does not align himself with any regional artistic group. His abstract multi-dimensional works deal with space, color, illusionism of balance and chaos. Embracing many mediums and materials, Yasami works with acrylic/oil paint, airbrush, paper, canvas and Bronze, transforming and constructing shapes into an illusion of realism that is about classical objects, clouds and skies that are painted to appear as wall reliefs. Masoud Yasami was represented exclusively by Elaine Horwitch owner of The Elaine Horwitch Art Galleries in SantaFe and Scottsdale from 1978 – 2003. Fibonacci Art Gallery became artist’s exclusive representative from 2003 after Elaine passed away. Fibonacci Art Gallery was founded and registered in Feb. 2003 to promote and represent Masoud Yasami worldwide and to catalog and to gather particular works for travelling exhibitions of artsist’s works. Yasami’s paintings are in major private collections and Museums in US, Europe and Middle east. Yasami has been a Distinguished associate Professor of Painting at Arizona State University and assistant professor of art at University of Utah and has lectured at universities across US including University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Art institute of Boston, University of Wisconsin, University of Nebraska Arizona state University and Farabi University among others.
Education
MFA 1978 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
BFA 1974 Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR
1971 University of California, Berkely, CA
Teaching
2015- 2016 Adjunct prof. of Art, Graphic Design, Figure drawing and Painting Gila community college, Payson AZ
1985 – 1986 Visiting Distinguished Associate Professor of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1980 – 1983 Assistant Professor of Art, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona
1978 – 1979 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah
Books written on Yasami/Biography please see: Library of Congress/ Arizona state Library or click:
Author Jerry Lynn Vanier… Portrait of a painter
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Selected List of Museums/ Private Collections:
Samuel Dorsky Museum, NY |
Empress Farah Pahlavi, Iran |
Wynn Resort Art Collection |
Pfizer Corp. New York |
Bank of America |
The ASU Art Museum, Arizona |
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Utah |
Yuma Museum of Art, arizona |
Tehran Museum of Fine Arts, Iran |
J.P. Morgan/Chase Bank, NY |
Tucson Museum of Fine Art, AZ |
Prudential Life Insurance |
Rolm Corporation |
Qwest Communications |
Visa of America |
Saks Fifth Avenue |
Morehead State University |
University of Wisconsin |
Frederick Weiseman Collection |
Forbes Collection |
General Motors |
Hughes Art Collection |
Mayo Clinic |
Kerman Museum of Art |