No. 25 Painting

Azita Panahpour (born in Tehran, Iran) is a contemporary abstract artist living in New York. In her Shattered Poems paintings, she explores feelings of transformation, memory, and identity, by creating a dynamic gestural vocabulary drawn from the Persian alphabet. The letter's sculptural curves, lines, and shapes become the basis of a visual dialogue, built with variations in scale, repetition, and sense of ephemeral movement. The images—set in multi-layered, distressed backgrounds—dance, fall, intertwine, and emerge with a deep emotional statement that transcends any literary expression. The Shattered Poems are a collision of past and present, loss and hope, culture and art, an individual depiction of a universal sentiment.   A multi-disciplinary artist, Azita’s works are in private and corporate collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Hyatt Hotel.