Portrait of Kamrooz Aram
Kamrooz Aram works on a painting until it feels ready to exist on its own. He layers gesso, draws, wipes, and returns, letting the lines settle slowly. The paintings now on view at Alexander Gray Associates span six years of patient attention, each surface holding the memory of its making. In the following conversation, Aram talks about where the paintings begin and what it means to work against modernism’s long-standing suspicion of the decorative, not by dismantling it through argument, but by simply making it feel beside the point.