His wonderful oil paintings are filled with vivid colors and symbolism and his art is very political. His paintings depict the western hemisphere and the Middle East simultaneously. He excites individual dialogues with a continuous backdrop of symbolism, methodology and uncertainty. According to Payvand’s Iran News, “Nodjoumi creates large scale oil paintings using a visual narrative that combines Persian metaphors and Iranian iconography with references of Western and foremost American culture and politics.”
What I like most about Nodjoumi’s work is that they are so random and aren’t narrative, you don’t really know what is going on, and its up to your imagination to figure out. Another aspect of Nodjoumi’s work that draws my attention is that he makes distinct separations of his compositions with dividing lines that make you wonder why he does this. Nodjoumi places his subjects either above ground, suggesting the existing world, or below into a nondescript, subterranean space equivalent to the underworld. He also leaves an overall feeling of displacement behind. His work has been shown in many international and national solo exhibitions including Seyhon Gallry, Aria Gallery and a 1980 Retrospective at The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran. Addition exhibitions include Iran Inside Out at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, NY and at the DePaul University Art Museum in Chicago, IL.
Nodjoumi’s newest exhibition “Invitation to Change Your Metaphor” will be held at Priska C. Juschka Fine Art gallery located at 547 West 27th Street, New York, NY from October 28th to December 30th 2010. This exhibition is Nodjoumi’s response to the political events in Iran, impacting the international community in the summer and fall of 2009.
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