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Demossa Gallery featured in OCinSite.com’s Art Roundtable. July 08, 2010During summer, visitors come from all sorts of climates and faraway places to experience all the wonders and magic of Laguna Beach. I think we should celebrate the summer with them and offer lighter, brighter subjects and more cheerful colors in lines, designs and subjects. We should try to show the kind of art that says “summer is here” and expresses that life is beautiful in Laguna Beach. This is how my gallery adjusts for summer visitors…See full article here. |
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Demossa Gallery- Mahvash Mossaed goes to Bijan House of Design, Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills February 14 – March 24, 2009Exhibitions of Paintings”I, Bijan, give you the immense viewing pleasure of this talented and radiant artist. P.S. I expressed to the revered artist, Fernando Botero, “I enjoy Mahvash’s work as much as I do yours!” ![]() |
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OC Register – Roberta Carasso: Iranian-born artist displays works at her Laguna gallery January 20, 2009 As a Laguna Beach art writer for more than 10 years, this is the first time I have seen art of an Iranian-born artist exhibited at a gallery in the area. Mahvash Mossaed brings sensitivity, intelligence and exotic Persian sensibility to her work, now on display at her new gallery, Demossa Gallery. Painter, poet and award-winning producer Mossaed and photographer Dennis Roberts moved their gallery of five years in Santa Ana to Laguna Beach to add a new dimension to the beach community. They transformed dark brown walls to bright white to reflect the brilliant light of the ocean and the energy of Laguna. Then they brought in very fine art and their gallery flourished. Their first show concerned the art of Laguna College of Art and Design MBA graduates, who have been noticed from Laguna Beach to Los Angeles and beyond. The goal of Demossa Gallery is to complement and raise the level of art in Laguna. |
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OC Register – Roberta Carasso: In review, 2008 a great year for art lovers December 23, 2008 Mahvash Mossaed, one of the owners of the new DeMossa Gallery, brings sensitivity, intelligence, exotic Persian sensibility and worldwide acclaim to her work. |
![]() This new gallery in Laguna wants to move you emotionally and stay away from the ho-hum. Q. Why did you choose Laguna? Q. What do you do as a gallery to set yourself apart from all the others in Laguna? Q. Do you have those kinds of artists coming to you easily? Q. What is in store for the future? A. We want to be an exciting gallery. We don’t want to be nice and clean. Every piece that I put on the wall, I have to be emotionally attached to it and I have to be passionate and excited. If I don’t feel that, I’m not going to hang it. I’m a poet, and in the future I would like to have poetry reading here. There’s a photographer that has traveled all over the world and he wants to present the photographs and the food and music from the certain place that he has photographed. I just want to be unpredictable. Like a good marriage, there always has to be an element of surprise. If you draw a circle, I want to step out of it. Q. What do you strive to achieve through your artwork?
Bijan Dear Mahvash,I have great pride in having your artwork in my private atelier at my corporate penthouse headquarters, as well as in my home. The enjoyment I get from your wonderful use of color, exciting subjects, and especially the way you see life through your own eyes is fascinating. As a designer not everyone loves what I do! But I have been doing it for the last twenty years, because I love it and I am proud of my success!You should be happy, strong and confident with your taste and I wish I could have the pleasure of owning many, many more pieces from your collection! Each piece shows strength, daringness, love, and hatred, laughter, tears… very, very much everything.Bravo!!Warmest personal regards, |
Los Angeles’s Feminist New Magazine Interviewed Mahvash Mossaed on her life and paintings.
“… the paintings speak for themselves. The vivid colors and bold images depict women struggling and express their feelings of having lost control.” Artist Spotlight Fem Magazine Article
The Orange County Register
Friday, September 15, 2006, Painting through pain By Teri Sforza
Iranian-American artist Mahvash Mossaed gets past her fears to reach her potential.
The garden in Tehran was surrounded by a high wall “to keep out everything not beautiful.” Flowers bloomed riotously. A blue fountain gurgled. And morning began when her father lifted the rose off the book on the breakfast table and read a poem aloud to his three daughters. Everything was like a dream. Slow. We lived in a dream,” said artist Mahvash Mossaed, who feels life has taken her from dreaming to waking, from darkness to light, from Iran and Canada and Great Britain to Kenya, South Africa, and ultimately, Orange County, where she finally decided she must fly as high as she can fly.
New York Independent Film & Video Festival
Saturday May 6, 2006
Awards: BEST CULTURAL DOCUMENTARY
NYIIFVF’s executive director Stuart Alson commented, “We are honored that Unveiling, I Paint a Woman’s Life in My Culture ” is an official selection at this year’s festival. Mahvash’s film is evocative, expertly crafted and contains powerful visual imagery. She is a very gifted artist who found a unique and effective way to tell her story and communicate her message to women all over the world. We feel that this is an important film and deserves to be screened at film festivals and hopefully television stations around the world. Mahvash is a highly talented painter, poet and gifted storyteller. She expertly guides us through the story of her life and her extraordinary journey of self-discovery, as a Middle Eastern woman with dreams that desperately needed to be realized. The subject matter is emotional, well organized and engaging.”
The Orange County Register
Friday, September 15, 2006, Painting through pain By Teri Sforza
Iranian-American artist Mahvash Mossaed gets past her fears to reach her potential.
The garden in Tehran was surrounded by a high wall “to keep out everything not beautiful.” Flowers bloomed riotously. A blue fountain gurgled. And morning began when her father lifted the rose off the book on the breakfast table and read a poem aloud to his three daughters. Everything was like a dream. Slow. We lived in a dream,” said artist Mahvash Mossaed, who feels life has taken her from dreaming to waking, from darkness to light, from Iran and Canada and Great Britain to Kenya, South Africa, and ultimately, Orange County, where she finally decided she must fly as high as she can fly.
Unveiling, I Paint a Woman’s Life in My Culture. Local artist/poet Mahvash Mossaed presents the bio-documentary she wrote, directed and narrated about herself. Born in Iran, she gives a candid account of her life and experiences. Laemmle’s Fairfax, 7907 Beverly Blvd., Los Angeles,
![]() Weekly ReviewShe reveals a playful spirit and a tutored talent for combining joy and naïveté with controlled, well-disciplined creativity. Her work is warm, intimate and exceedingly personal. She finds inspiration in human relations, in fantasy, myth, and even dream creation, and yet she finds equal delight as a painter in fastidious concern for color, composition, and finding a perfect balance between restful harmony and decisive dynamism. The OregonianIranian women, as every fan of stereotypes knows, are male-dominated, chador-clad and decidedly unliberated. Believe this and you will miss everything exciting about Mahvash Mossaed; an Iranian born woman whose paintings are exhibited at various galleries. There’s unmistakable warmth that shines through her paintings. They glow with color and emotion. They leap back and forth from the resonance of an early Matisse to a Persian variant on a Judaic legend.
Willamette weekMahvash has been praised for her use of color and her vitality and humor. Her paintings are surreal in nature, autobiographical, and full of rhythm and texture.
Sheridan SansegundoMahvash’s paintings are “primitive”, a term which derives from primitive cultures, and an almost-obsessive focus upon detail. This approach draws more upon the artist’s inner feelings, which in turn creates a seemingly naïve approach to spatial relationships and accepted drawing techniques. Primitive definitely, but behind her images is a highly developed concept. In this exhibition she has brought together a cohesive body of work, which expresses the importance of primitive art in today’s society.
The American Visionary Art Museum Painted Dreams Book ReviewsJames A. Cox
SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEW
Bijan
Rebecca Alban Hoffberger
Maryam Ovissi |
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