Draft:Jila Kamyab

Jila Kamyab (born in Kermanshah, 1957) is a contemporary Iranian painter and ceramist.

She started studying at the Faculty of Decorative Arts in 1976, and after a break, she continued her studies at the undergraduate and master's level in painting at the Tehran University of Art and Architecture, and graduated in 1992. In 2004, she attended the course of Ceramic Studies and Raku in atelier Mire in Paris. Kamyab has been an art instructor at Art Universities in Tehran since 1995.

Her artworks participated in numerous solo and group exhibitions, biennials and art events inside and outside Iran, such as Canada, Italy, France, UAE, Croatia, and more. She was awarded in Iranian Second Painting Biennale in 1993, and received research award (Raku) in Iranian National Biennial of Ceramic Arts in Tehran.

Work
Jila Kamyab is an artist who has worked with different mediums, and her work's materials are proof of an archaic approach to respecting nature and humans. The space of Kamyab's visual language is manifested in the harmony of forms, in which figure and content are frozen in the moment of incarnation, as if the lucidity of these images awaits the definiteness of a new world.

The archaic quality of Kamyab's art is more visible in the concept than in the appearance; this is because Iranian art views nature in an entirely abstract manner in order to link the rate at which articles of the universe appear and disappear, to more profound roots.

Her works in volumetric and installation arts, as well as painting, all tell stories about man's break with nature and the destruction of his mental and natural habitats. The poeticism of the painter's depiction of man and nature, the infinite time concealed in the earth, stone, and artifacts made of soil, is a justification for reminding viewers of the highs and lows of humans, during his brief existence and presenting transparent and harmonic colours in a layered structure with a precise spatial arrangement on canvas and objects. The painter's long history of education and reflection on art and her calm silence are proof of her artistic truth and freedom from the worries of today's fast-paced world. Undoubtedly, she has continued a pleasant conversation with the world.

Despite maintaining individuality in her artistic career, she passed through the way of searching for tone and opening in contemporary Iranian artists such as Nasser Assar, Sohrab Sepehri, and others, and is also influenced by Far Eastern art.

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