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Cyrus Afsary  Waterhouse Gallery
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The Mission Capistrano
10 x 8 Oil $3700

Artist Biography

Cyrus Afsary is known for works of art that not only capture moments in time, but create moods about people and places as well. With an eclectic range of subjects, Afsary moves from portraits to still lifes to landscapes with a magical grace that reflects his sensitive and emotional study of life. As a child, his love for art was evident. And while his father was concerned for his penchant for art, his mother encouraged his talent.

Afsary enrolled in art school at the age of 15. As a teenager, he received commissions for painting portraits, which served him well later in his career when he was invited to paint portraits of Sylvester Stallone, Frank Sinatra, Susan Anton, Dean Martin, and Wayne Newton’s horse, Aramis.In college, Afsary earned two Bachelor of Arts degrees, one in Fine Arts and the other in interior design. His education has led him, through the years, to paint a wide variety of subjects in his preferred medium, oil, and sometimes watercolors and pastels.

He has been greatly influenced by the artwork of the masters, especially the great Russian artists, Ilya Repin and Valentin Serov. Afsary’s work has been featured in numerous shows and he has won a variety of awards, including, Best of Show at the Charles M. Russell Museum’s art exhibition, the Exceptional Merit Award from the National Art Club in the 1986 Pastel Society of Northwest Rendezvous.

In 1988, he was the first recipient of the Robert Lougheed Memorial Award, then sponsored by the National Academy of Western Art. He won both Silver and Gold Medals in the NAWA shows.Afsary has participated at the Masters of the American West Show at the Autry Museum in Los Angeles in 2001 and in 2002, participated in the Buffalo Bill Historical Center Show and Sale. Afsary was one of four artists chosen to exhibit in Gilcrease Museum’s 2002 Rendezvous in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

He and his work have been profiled in Midwest Art, Southwest Art, Art of the West and most recently, American Artist. That profile noted, “A gentle, thoughtful man with a ready laugh, Cyrus Afsary is equally adept at painting landscapes, still lifes, and portraits, infusing each with the sensitivity that characterizes all of his work. His colors are clear and clean; the brushwork is decisive and vigorous, conveying through lucid technical choices his personal interpretation of the subject at hand. A viewer might feel the warmth of the sun and observe the clarity of light in his landscapes and assume the artist paints outdoors. “I’m kind of lazy,” he confides, “But I do paint outdoors occasionally. We have beautiful light in Arizona.”

 

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