Safa Azimi

I was born in Tehran, Iran in 1950. I left Iran in 1963 to go study in France. subsequently I moved to Chicago in 1968 to continue my education. I have traveled throughout Europe the Middle-East and North Africa and am trilingual.
My artistic tendencies manifested early in a time-line of continuous metamorphic mutations, spewing the different modalities of my life.
I don't see art as a fragmented, socio-economical or politico-cultural event cloisoned by geographic boundaries and systems of separation, but rather as the continious manifestation of infinite life through the expression of the "I" in the individual.

The whole of the artistic universe is where I dwell; not east nor west, neither north or south. I find it hard to categorize, differentiate, box, label or limit, a precarious act of self petrification. Ultimately and inexorably the final synthesis is what the work is about.

Because of my professional involvement with graphic arts and design, the computer and digital technology, I have slowly moved to the digital media and find it extremely versatile and as satisfying as the traditional methodologies. I sometimes combine the two to create a hybrid version.

The Genigraphics Computer System - 1988MFA, SFAI (San Francisco Art Institute)- 1978BFA, CCAC (California College of the Arts)- 1974 Active in digital art and technology (1995- present) Character Artist, The Walt Disney Company, Orlando, FL. (1993-1995) Character Artist, The Walt Disney Company. New York, N.Y. (1989-1993) Group exhibit, paintings, the Museum of Modern Art, Anchorage, Ak (1985) PBS group exhibit broadcast auction, lithographs, The Atrium, Anchorage, Ak (1985) Group exhibit, pastel drawings, The Stonington Gallery, Anchorage, Ak (1985) Group exhibit, lithographs, The Exxon Atrium, Anchorage, Ak (1985) Group exhibit, lithographs & paintings, the Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Ak (1985) Solo exhibit, watercolors, Huong Fine Arts Gallery, Anchorage, AK (1984) Group exhibit, paintings, the Alaska Visual Arts Center, Anchorage, Ak (1984) Juried group exhibit, paintings, the Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage, Ak (1984) Solo exhibit, watercolors, the Unitarian Center, San Francisco, CA (1982) Richmond Juried Art Exhibit, watercolors, Richmond , CA (1982) Solo exhibit, gouaches, Vence, France (1981) Solo exhibit, paintings & watercolors, Stairway Gallery, Oakland, CA (1980) Group exhibit, p...