John Mazaheri joins Jack Art Gallery

Iranian-American artist, John Mazaheri, recently joined the growing portfolio of artists at Jack Art Gallery.

In the past few years John has mostly painted oil on canvas and has done drawings with pen, ink, and watercolor. John has always loved and practised abstraction, but sometimes his work does not seem truly abstract simply because the inspiration comes from nature. John loves indeed the sky, the horizon, deserts, mountains, but his intention is not to represent them in a conscious way. John just want to express his feelings and sensations, which are definitely of spiritual source. One may call John's works abstract landscapes.

John did his high school in Paris and studied art at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (Paris) from 1970 to 1976. He graduated with a degree in printmaking (equivalent MFA) and taught this art at the College of Decorative Arts and French at the French Institute in Tehran for several years; then he moved to the United States with his family in 1984, after having earned a Master’s degree in French literature from Aix-en-Provence, France. In 1989, John got his Ph.D. in French from Brown University. He has taught at Auburn University in Alabama since then. John regularly participate in juried shows in America.

See John's work at www.jackartgallery.com/john-mazaheri