Bio

A native of Afghanistan, my family and I moved to the United States before the Afghan-Russian war in 1979. I studied at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia majoring in Art Studio with a concentration in Computer Graphics. During this time, I further developed my skills as an artist, working specifically with digital photography, printmaking, drawing, painting and computer graphics. I’ve had a few shows in George Mason University’s Alcove Gallery.  The first was in the summer of 2001, my senior thesis exhibition in December of 2003 and several paintings were show cased in October of 2007.  I have also shown works titled Unspoken Identity at the Blue Room in Adams Morgan, Washington, D.C. as well as, This is what “they” look like for a group show titled, Impacto at Nena in Arlington, Virginia. Currently, I am a make-up artist and Art Teacher to elementary children.
In the past seven years, I have combined my skills as a make-up artist and a photographer to create my own artistic expressions. In my works I’ve decided to paint faces with urban landscapes instead of beauty products. I believe that the places where people live and work become important parts of who they are.  Although each piece has its own symbolic meaning for me, as the artist, I believe that art is seen differently through everyone’s eyes.  I like that my work can convey a variety of meanings, in response to which the viewer can then create his or her own dialogue.