Elham Nazari

Elham Nazari is an Iranian American artist. She received her MFA in Studio Art from WCSU in 2017. Growing up in Iran, Nazari has felt “the unbearable heaviness of being a woman in a traditional, male-dominated society”. This feeling became a theme for a series of paintings in which she expressed herself through the use of bold color in acrylic and oil. Her recent figurative works are more minimal in tone and detail in order to exaggerate the emotional impact of form and movement. They are reflections of her interior self. Nazari’s work has been exhibited in several California, Connecticut and NY galleries.