Visit studio of Seyed Alavi.

Seyed brings a refined conceptual interest to all his work, which drives him to explore new visual territories and experiment with a variety of mediums. His recent paintings are organic geometric abstractions that fully acknowledge his Western art training, as well as being informed by references to the folk art of his Persian cultural heritage. These works draw on a bold color palette, and make use of strong color contrasts to set the stage for the interplay between seemingly diverse, but related characters, to take shape. Seyed’s paintings also reflect his interest in the relationship between language and meaning; the concrete and abstract; the physical and meta-physical.

He has created site-specific installations for The New Museum of Contemporary Art and Franklin Furnace in New York City; The University Art Museum- Cal State Long Beach; The Museum of Santa Cruz County; The deSaisset Museum; The University Art Museum, Sonoma State; The University Art Museum, Cal State San Bernadino and San Francisco's Capp Street Project.

His public art projects include; Fountain Head in Walnut Creek, CA; Tree of Life in Seattle, WA; Room for Hope and Flying Carpet in Sacramento, CA; Tale of Time in Kochi, Japan; Seed of Knowledge in Saint Paul, MN; Nature of Life and A Sense of Unity in San Jose, CA; Signs of the Time in Emeryville, CA; Where Is Fairfield in Fairfield, CA; Words by Roads in Oakland, Selected Words in San Rafael, CA; Forgotten Language for the City of Palo Alto; Speaking Stones, Golden Gateway and What Do You Think? in San Francisco.

He has also received grants from the NEA/ US-Japan Creative Artists' Fellowship; The California Art Council; Western States Arts Federation; Art Matters Inc.; The Pollock-Krasner Foundation; New Langton Arts; City of Oakland Creative Artists Fellowship; The Creative Work Fund, and The LEF Foundation.

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Recent Projects

• Slate Art Offsite Exhibition, 555 12th Street, Oakland, CA
• Portrait in Play, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
• Material Memories, 650 California Street, San Francisco
• Figure of Speech, 45 Fremont Street, San Francisco
• There Is No Place Like Here, Brooklyn, NY

Group Exhibitions

• A.Space Gallery, Menlo Park, CA
• 40 by 40; University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park
• Rise Up; Minnesota Street Project, SFAE Gallery; San Francisco, CA
• Ascent; San Francisco, CA