Constructed intuitively over time from multiple layers of washes and glazes of varying thicknesses, a work will often begin as a response to the experience of a particular gesture, fragment or form which then dissolves into atmospheric passages as the painting evolves and layers are applied, scraped back and reapplied. Like a kind of archiving process this circular rhythm of push and pull, addition and absorption, continues until the work reaches its conclusion. Erasing spatial distinctions Ostovany’s exploration of the poetics of space achieves a sort of liminal state where energies within and without come to rest on the surface of the painting in what Ostovany calls “a sense of resonance.”

Yari Ostovany has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally and has been the recipient of numerous grants, including the Sierra Arts Endowment Grant, Craig Sheppard Memorial Grant and the Sierra Nevada Arts Foundation Grant. Recent solo exhibitions include The Yard: Columbus Circle, New York; Stanford Art Spaces, Stanford University, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland; Rebecca Molayem Gallery, Los Angeles; and Aria Gallery, Tehran. Yari Ostovany’s work is included in in the permanent collections of numerous international institutions, including, New Britain Museum of American Art, Connecticut; Pasargad Bank Museum, Tehran; Chateau d’Orquevaux, Champagne-Ardenne, France; and the University of Nevada.