Yari Ostovany is an Iranian-American artist whose layered, luminous paintings are shaped by a deep engagement with mystical traditions and poetic abstraction. Trained at the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of Nevada, Reno, Ostovany creates works that evolve through a meditative, process-driven technique—applying, dissolving, and scraping layers of pigment to reveal a sense of movement and transcendence.

Often beginning with calligraphic, gestural marks, his compositions are inspired by emotional and cognitive impulses, then transformed through an alchemical interplay of color, texture, and space. Drawing from both Eastern and Western art, poetry, and spirituality, Ostovany’s practice sits at the intersection of Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting, expressing a timeless dialogue between the seen and the unseen.