I was born and raised in Shiraz, where I spent a few years after high school learning drawing and painting form the great Iranian master, G.H.Saber. I have been most fascinated with and focused on pen and ink drawing of all techniques and after I moved to Canada I rediscovered etching as the ultimate medium to tell stories using lines and lines only.
From a technical point of view, the unlimited variations of lines, values and textures, the variableness of intaglio in general and etching in particular, the ability to indefinitely rework, retouch and transform a plate at different states are found in few other artistic media. From polishing the plate, applying the ground, drawing the image and etching in the acid to inking, wiping and pulling the print, each and every single step provides endless possibilities to affect the final outcome.
Solo Exhibitions:
2011
The Parable of the Flying Cow and other Fabricated Stories, Dundarave Print Workshop, Vancouver, BC
Select Group Exhibitions:
2011
Open Print Show,
Federation Gallery
( FCA ), Vancouver, BC
2010
Dundarave Print Workshop
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2009
Malaspina Printmakers
Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2008 Print Parallels, Cityscape Community Art Space, North Vancouver,
BC
2007 Annual Summer show, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 The Architecture Centre Gallery,
AIBC, Vancouver,
BC
2006 Annual Summer show, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2006 Landscape show,
Federation Gallery
( FCA ), Vancouver, BC
2006 30 X 30: New Directions in Printmaking,
Burnaby Art Gallery,
Burnaby, BC
2005 Annual winter show, Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2005 Small, Smaller, Smallest,
Federation Gallery
( FCA ), Vancouver, BC
2005 Island Inks,
Federation Gallery
( FCA ), Vancouver, BC
2005 Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004
Le Locle Prints,
Fine Arts Museum, Le Locle, Switzerland
2004
BIMPE III,
New Leaf Editions,
Vancouver and Gallery San Chun, Calgary, Alberta
2004 Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2004 CityScape Community Art Space , North Vancouver, BC
2003 Malaspina Printmakers Gallery, Vancouver, BC
1996 Golestan Gallery, Tehran, Iran
Member of:
Dundarave Print Workshop
Malaspina Printmakers
email: vahid@dastpak.ca