still life Painting

Maryam is Persian American artist who born and grow up in Iran and moved to the USA by marriage. She is a fine art artist, art educator. She started her artistic journey as a makeup artist from Isfahan's central TV station and became known as a technical figure of cinema through her work on several cinematic movies, screenplays, and TV shows and worked as the executive director of a publishing company and owned & managed several media illustration businesses. Her life-long education in art and strategic thinking enabled her to become a multidisciplinary designer, media artist, and illustrator with an eye for innovation and perfection. She worked at the gamut of clients both in Iran and the US including Opel Auto, Mapna Co., Taftan airline, Valfajr Holding The company, Goltune Digital Magazine to name a few. She is Co-Founder and Executive Director of “We The Artists (WTA)”, Strive to Survive Succeed, a community-driven, non-profit artist-run organization in Seattle dedicated to assisting Seattle area Persian artist through, workshop, art exhibition and support a local artist. she graduated with BA in fine art(painting) in 1996 and a Master of Art in Illustration in 2002 at the Azad University, Tehran Iran. She held a university faculty position in the field of graphic design & illustration at Art & Culture University and Azad University in Tehran & Isfahan since 2003. She also has taught workshops for over 28 years, both regionally and nationally, for educational organizations in Iran as well as Young Rembrandt-Seattle, Kirkland Art Center, and Bellevue art center, Washington state. She was Owner & Managing Director of "Assar Designers Group" company. She has written & published several books about illustration which is used as one of the main reference books for teaching at the university education system and guest-edited several publications. Exhibited and Judgment internationally her work has been shown in Iran such as Contemporary of Esfahan Museum, Gallery Classic, Afarinesh Gallery, Tehran Contemporary art museum and selected by KAC Gallery, Washington