Niloufar Farzam

Thoreau once said: "NATURE is beautiful only as a place where a life is to be lived. It is not beautiful to him who has not resolved on a beautiful life."

Thoreau’s quote unquestionably resonates with me. I too, wish to address the beautiful in NATURE and celebrate it's absolute wildness, innate freedom, and infinite strength. I look at NATURE with painter’s sensitivity and scientist’s eye. Through my art, I honor Nature by expressing it’s many riches, including mountains, sea coasts, sunsets, thunderclouds, and trees. I worship the environment we inhabit, but mourn its gradual destruction. I am richest when I use NATURE as my inspiration and poorer when I depict its destruction by Climate Change.

When I am about to begin a painting, I become deeply reflective and in touch with the powerful emotions that NATURE instills in me. As the painting develops, these inspirations evolve into the raw elements of form, shape, contrast, color and texture. Upon completion, these all come together to create an incredibly powerful and cohesive statement.

In my artwork I warn against the ecological poverty of that we are creating. We cannot continue to bulldoze the landscape, to pollute the air, and to ravage and exploit the NATURE with impunit...

Education & Professional Activities​:
Tableau, Owner, Private instruction for children and adults, 2000-present
Figure Drawing Class and Workshop, David Hardy, Founder and Director of The Atelier School of Classical Realism, Oakland, CA, 2012-2013
Semi-Private Study & Workshop, Karen Frey, Signature Member Of National Watercolor Society, Oakland, CA, 2010-2011
Plein Air & Watercolor Class, Mark Roberts, Painter & Curator of Antioch Lynn House Gallery, Antioch, CA, 2009-2010
Graduate Drawing Figure Studio, Academy of Arts University, San Francisco, 2009
Mentor & Painter, Dorothy Odland, Women's Art Registry of Minnesota, 1999-2000
B.S Microbiology, Arizona State University

Other Art Related Experience:​
Speaker at "Meet the Artist" for Composing the Future, NCWCA, June, 2021
Speaker at "Art Share" by NCWCA, Via Zoom, February, 2021
Speaker at "Art Share" by NCWCA, Via Zoom, August 2020
"Artist Interview" by Blue Line Arts, Roseville, CA, June 2020
Speaker at “Pandemic Transformation “, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Via Zoom, June 2020
Speaker at "Favorite Things", Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Virtual via Zoom, April 2020
​Speaker at "Abstract 2019", Sebastopol Center for the Arts, Sebastopol, CA, October 2019...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
"Ripples", University of California College of Law, San Francisco, CA, April 2023 - April 2024
​" January Artist Salon" SFWA, San Francisco, CA, January 2022
"December Artist Salon", SFWA Gallery, San Francisco, CA, December 2021

GALLERY REPRESENTATIONS:
The Drawing Room Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2023
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JURIED EXHIBITIONS​:
"A World of its own" Artist Alliance Exhibition on Artsy.net, May - August 2023
- Juror: John Youogi Fortes, Artist, Sacramento, CA
"Portals" NCWCA Member Exhibition with ARC Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June - August 2023
- Juror: Karen Gutfreund, Curator, Artist, Author, Syracuse, New York City
"Adapting to Wildfire" Marin Civic Center Gallery, San Rafael, CA, May - August 2023
- Juror: Emebet B. Korn, Founder & director of DESTA Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
"11th Anual FRESH WORKS " Harrington Gallery, Pleasanton CA, April - June 2023
​- Juror: Ashley Voss, Owner/Director of Voss Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Embracing Nature" SFWA Gallery, San Francisco, CA, May 2023
- Juror: Renee DeCarlo, Owner/Director of The Drawing Room, San Francisco, CA
"Patterns & Shapes" San Francisco Women Artists Gallery, San Franciso, CA, March 2023
- Juror: Hillary Olcott, Assocuiate Curator of Fine Arts Museums of ...