Faripour Forouhar

Member since 1996

Faripour Forouhar L A - ARC is an established American contemporary painter of highest standards who pursues the art of painting with passion beyond avocation. His home is in New England. He travels to the mountains and coastlines for painting. He studied painting with the late Edgar Whitney from Pratt, NYC and completed courses in Grand Central Academy of Fine Arts, New York City and took workshops with various masters.

He is an scholar in the field of art and visual perception and has designed and conducted successful courses on this subject in the University of Connecticut.

Artist Statement:

The abstraction and distortion that's possible in painting makes it uniquely suitable for expression of the conscious and unconscious experience in a manner far truer and more intriguing than an accurate recording done for example, by a camera. The more subjective the experience the more unique the expression. This principle applies to all forms of painting, figurative, imaginative and abstract. The challenge is in conscious understanding of the visual elements that effectuate the subjective experience, the ‘know yourself’ factor, the artists vision; this is what he is trying to do. This is in line with view expressed by Cennino Cennini that “painting calls for imagination and skill of hand in order to discover things not seen, hiding themselves under the shadow of natural objects, and to fix them with the hand, presenting to plain sight what does not actually exist”.

Faripour is an exhibiting artist in Rockport Art Association, Hudson Valley Art Association, Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts, Lyme Art Association, North Shore Art Association, New Britain Museum of American Arts. He has many paintings in institutional collections.

Awards:

-2nd place, art league of New Britain, February 2024.

-Hudson Valley Art Association 88 annual exhibition 2021, oil – Phillip Schumacher memorial award for marine art.

-Art League of New Britain, Honourable Mention, 2019 annual juried exhibition

-Guerrilla painter award 2019 second summer exhibition North Shore Art Association Gloucester, MA 2019

-Finalist Art Renewal Center, annual salon exhibition 2018 – 2019

-Helen Van Wyk memorial medal and award for excellence in landscape painting Rockport Art Museum and Association 2017.

-Memorial Medal; Rockport Art Association, Helen Van Wyk, 2017-2018

-Collinsville Savings Society Award of Excellence, 58 open juried exhibition 2017, Gallery on the Green.

-Aardvart Art Studio, Award of Excellence, Art League of New Britian, Annual Juried Exhibition, 2017.

-Finalist Art Renewal Center Annual Salon Exhibition 2013, 2015, 2016 2017

- People’s choice award 95th annual elected artist exhibition 2016 Lyme artist sociation.

-3rd place 25th annual members carriage house jury exhibition art league of New Britain 2015

-Mitchell Manchester memorial prize 48 annual open juried exhibition Gallery on the Green 2015.

--Bold Brush, Jury’s Favorite Award “( FAV 15%) august 2015.

-First Place, See Red, 24th annual exhibition, The Art league of New Britain, 2014

-Aldro Hibbard Memorial Award from North Shore Art Association.

-Honorable Mention, Lym Art Association.

-Most popular painting vote, Farmington Valley Art Center.

-Kiran Meritorious Award in Landscape Painting, Rockport art association.

-Recognition; Beaux-Art Realiste, Canada, 2014

-The Maxwell Shepherd Memorial Art Fund award, Gallery of the Green, Canton Art League, 2014

Honors:

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living artist, or renewal center organization and included in or to nursing center living artists gallery December 2013

Elected artist RockPort Art Association,

Elected artist, Lyme Artist Association.

Elected Artist Northshore Art Association.

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