My recent paintings begin from details of persian carpets photographed in New York carpet stores. These segments of pattern are accurately drawn on the canvas. The painting process becomes like a series of performances. This improvised and ritualistic manner of painting is Western in the tradition of abstract painting, but is also Eastern, referencing Iranian and Arabic traditions of music in which distinct musical patterns are improvised upon to create an individual yet divinely inspired expression. The carpet pattern heeds to a broader vocabulary of images.
The final image is a collection of layers which create abstract narratives exploring such diverse and common subjects as love, longing, freedom, conflict, war, and oppression, which may take place on and around the carpets themselves.
— Kamrooz Aram


Selected group exhibitions: 2002: Columbia University, New York; Wallach Gallery, New York; Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco; 2002: Multitude, Artists Space, New York; Mirror of the invisible, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, San Bernardino, USA; November, H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore.