Salma Arastu

Salma Arastu (born 1950, Rajasthan, India) is an Indian artist, living in North America.[1][2][3][4][5] Arastu is a native of Rajasthan and had a masters in fine arts from MS University in Baroda.[1] Arastu's main mediums include clay sculpture, paper mache, and print work. She has also worked extensively with calligraphy and produces greeting cards for the American Muslim community.[6] Arastu has been exhibiting her paintings for over last thirty years in India, Iran, Kuwait, Germany and the United States, having more than thirty solo and group exhibitions.[3][5][7] Furthermore, her work has been placed in many museums around world for example, "State Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA" and "Museum Of Modern Art, Hyderabad, India".[2][8] Her exhibitions have been held in notable places e.g. "Stanford Art Spaces", Stanford University, "art Museum", Radford University,[9][10][11] and she has earned several awards for her work.[2]

Selected solo exhibition

Salma Arastu has had more than thirty solo exhibitions and even many more group exhibitions.[2][3][8][12] Some of her selected solo exhibitions are following.

1.Artbook published 2009 “The Lyrical Lines: Embracing All and Flowing from Oakland Publishers Half Full Press in their series of Emerging American Artists

http://emergingamericanartists.com/artists/sarastu/sarastu_portfolio.htm

2. Salma Arastu’s 3’ tall aluminum sculpture "The Family" has been selected to be in an international exhibition organized by Ekateringburg Art Foundation in Russia beginning September 2010. The project was initiated in Russia in 2005 under the name "In Family Unity – Unity of the Nation" by Ekaterinburg Art Foundation. The exhibition has been held in 25 cities of Russia, including the Kremlin, The Council of Federation of the Federal Assembly of Russia and State Duma. In June 2009 the All-Russian exhibition took part during the summits of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization and BRIC. Positive results of the exhibition activities in a variety of regions made us believe that at the present moment we can already work on the international exhibition project as well. We suggest to unite the works of sculptors and photographers that are devoted to the topic announced. The aim of the project is propaganda of eternal human values by means of sculpture, art and photography. The main goal of the exhibition is to unite the creative potential of sculptors and photographers from different countries in order to establish universal values and national peculiarities on the topic announced.

www.expo-family.com http://en.expo-family.com/section/62/

3.Salma Arastu’s 8’ tall sculpture "Dancing With The Stars" in steel and copper has been installed at port of San Diego in October 2010 In Port Of San Diego’s Public Art Project Urban Trees 7 http://www.portofsandiego.org/public-art/learn-about-the-urban-trees-project/2285-urban-trees-7-gallery.html

Salma Arastu’s 6’ tall steel sculpture "Allah" was selected to be exhibited at the Sonoma Valley Art Museum from August 21 to November 7, 2010 in the exhibition titled "Visions of Paradise".

http://www.svma.org/

4.Salma Arastu’s four pieces of Arabic Calligraphy are selected to be in a group exhibition at the Doug Adams Gallery at Berkeley University.

"Picturing the Word: The Visuality of Text" at the Doug Adams Gallery, September 16 to December 17, 2010. care-gtu.org

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "welcome to salma arustu". Salma Arustu. Retrieved 2014-05-23.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 "Bio: Salma Arastu". Archived from the original on 2006-12-31. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Indo-American Arts Council". Indo-American Arts Council. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  4. ↑ "SAWCC: Shaken and Stirred Visual Arts". SAWCC.org. Archived from the original on 2007-04-28. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "South Asian Women's Creative Collection". skidmore.edu. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  6. ↑ Moore, Haddad, Smith (2006) p. 139
  7. ↑ "Women's Caucus for Art: Northern California Chapter". ncwca.org. Archived from the original on 2006-12-14. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 "Biography: Salma Arastu". mesart.com. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 "RU Museum Current Exhibitions". radford.edu. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  10. ↑ "SAS Exhibition". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 2007-06-09. Retrieved 2007-04-23.
  11. ↑ "illustration & Paintings, Stanford Galleries, San Jose Mercury News". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved 2007-04-02.
  12. ↑ "Event showcases Islam artists, poets, musicians". Daily Targum. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 "Art Jaz Gallery - Salma Arastu". artjaz. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  14. ↑ "The University of Scranton- The hope Horn Gallery". scranton.edu. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  15. ↑ "Work by Five Women Artists on Display at Black Cultural center". lafayette.edu. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
  16. ↑ "Reading Public Museum: Discovery Through Art, Science and Civilization". Reading Public Museum. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-04-24.

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