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Becky Yazdan
BIOGRAPHY
Becky Yazdan lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She currently shows her work in New York and Rhode Island. She completed her MFA at the NY Studio School where she studied with Bill Jensen, Charles Cajori and Graham Nickson.
ARTIST STATEMENT
"The secret of poetry lies in treading the middle path between the reality and the vacuity of the world." – Matsuo Basho
When I paint I try to find the balance between intuition and intellect, so that the process of painting becomes an active dialogue with the phenomena of nature. I often begin with memories of events, feelings or colors – the pink of my favorite childhood bathing suit, the first time I told a lie. In the process of sorting through the detritus of past perceptual experience, the paintings become layered with associations and other memories are uncovered.
Much of my painting is done away from the canvas, whether I am running along the Westside Highway or lying in bed close to sleep. Running, like sleep, is a way to suppress the intellectualization of perceptual experience. Running along the Westside Highway with cars speeding by on one side and helicopters landing on the other, is truly exhilarating. All of the contradictions of nature can be found here – the speed of the cars and the gentle lapping of water, the extreme geometry of the buildings circled by ribbons of highway, and vegetation growing over construction fences. I am struck by the dilapidated piers and pilings, and the garbage and foam that washes up along the rocks.
It is this place where nature and manufactured life meet, the collision of ideas with form, where painting happens.
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