Badri Valian

Human body and its movements are the most intricate, sophisticated structures our eyes are exposed to. The fluidness and continuity of human movements along with the shapes the body takes during these movements, create a picture in our eyes full of smooth curves musically related to each other. This is what I try to capture in my work blending the body and its motions with music I hear and the rapture I feel in my mind .
"Family Dreams" Project's statement :
Today’s society is a conglomeration of children of yesterday. The children who witness the interactions and relations between their parents and other family members.
The child’s memory is full of colors juxtaposing patterns shaped by the surrounding characters and deformed by their personalities. Reminiscing those memories bring tears to her eyes instead of smiles to her face.
She finds her soul crushing under the pressure of pain, watching her mother’s detestable and odious treatment of her father. She sees her father desperately trying to bond the family together and to prevent its disintegration while the mother is ripping it apart with her unbearable sorrow, extreme anxieties, and hate.
The mother’s shape is warped and distorted. The father is a collection of so...

Education : 1996 _ 2000 University of Art Iran- Mashhad
Since 2013 studying figurative drawing in San Francisco , 23th street studio

1. Seyhoon Gallery, Los Angeles , May 2013.
2. CSUMB , California State University Monterey Bay , International Department , March , 2018
3 . Art Venture Gallery, Menlo Park , CA ,January 2018
4. Modernisem Gallery in Forign Cinema, Group Exhibition, 2021
5. WRAG, Berkely University, Solo Exhibition, 2022