Art Colony Association Announces Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park Featured Artist: Ash Beheshti
Friday-Sunday, October 11-13, 2024
The Art Colony Association, Inc. (ACA) has announced the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park 2024 featured artist is Ash Beheshti, a mixed media artist from Los Angeles. As a visual storyteller, Beheshti voices his stories through his figurative collages that celebrate the female form and portray women in a strong, positive, and inspirational light.
Beheshti along with 280 artists from around the country, representing 19 different disciplines will showcase their art at the Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park on October 11-13, 2024.
Beheshti said: “My mixed media paintings are the windows to my mind where endless ideas are percolating to be realized and shared with the rest of the world. To me, painting is freedom. The possibilities are infinite. Living in a world run by norms, rules and regulations, I find no limits to what I can create when I stare at a blank canvas.”
A Northern California native and an SFSU graduate, Beheshti relocated to Los Angeles in the late 1990s to turn his passion for painting, fashion photography, film, music, travel and all things vintage into a successful career as a contemporary artist. After years of developing his artistic skills and experimenting with various techniques, it was his strong affinity to working in mixed media that ultimately shaped his unique style of original art.
To bring his canvases to life, Beheshti combines a multitude of complimentary mediums and textures. Hand-painted with acrylic paint over a carefully selected layer of collage, silk-screen, and printmaking, the paintings take their final shape once all the elements have been meticulously applied. Vintage sheet music, retro magazine ads, original photography, old newspapers, graphic book and album covers make up the artist's favorite background elements.
For more information on Beheshti, visit: Ash Beheshti - Artist.
During October 11-13, 2024, Bayou City Art Festival will bring diverse artists to Memorial Park while supporting local organizations and promoting the impact that art has on the Houston community. As the nation’s premier spring outdoor art festival in the U.S., Bayou City Art Festival will provide guests with the opportunity to meet artists, view original works, and purchase one-of-a-kind art, prints, jewelry, sculptures, functional art and more.
The three-day festival features live entertainment stages, a food truck park, a craft beer and wine garden, additional live entertainment and beverage stations throughout the festival, an Active Imagination Zone, a VIP Hospitality Lounge and much more.
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About Bayou City Art Festival:
Since the founding of the Westheimer Art Festival, now known as Bayou City Art Festival, the Art Colony Association, Inc. has raised close to $4 million for local nonprofit programs from the proceeds of its festivals. Bayou City Art Festival Memorial Park in the spring and Bayou City Art Festival Downtown in the fall has provided a venue for more than 20,000 artists to showcase their work to thousands of art lovers from all over the world. The festivals are funded in part by grants from the City of Houston, corporate sponsorships, private contributions, in-kind support and volunteer assistance.
Volunteer and sponsorship opportunities are available. For more information, please visit www.artcolonyassociation.org.