The DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities (CAH) FY 2026 Art Bank Program has selected my painting, “Unhinged,” as a finalist, following my invitation to participate. It was featured on the screen as part of the DC Art Now 2025 Exhibit, September 11 – December 12, 2025.We celebrated the opening of the exhibition and honored all Art Bank finalists with a reception to kick off DC’s Art All Night weekend on September 11, 2025. About Unhinged:Unhinged is an attempt to relax the viewers, take their minds off daily obstacles, and engage them in a fun visual trick or illusion. Viewers may wonder if it’s meant to be about faces (profiles), plants, or buildings. And it is whatever they want it to be. I used fluorescent pink and light shades of yellow-green (acrylic) to create a soft background atmosphere, then energized it with dangling and upward-growing shapes (spray paint) and fixed-width thinner lines (collaged blue tape). The two futuristic orange spheres (eyes) and the lines (outlines of human or bird heads) interact to generate three whimsical profiles, with only two present simultaneously, depending on which way you look at it—the wave being the mouth and nose or chin for all three.

Three of my paintings—Bounce, Light Hall, and Portal Mystique from my Architectural series were selected for the Hickok Cole Art Night 2025 Annual Auction (Oct 16), which was the 25th anniversary of this event supporting the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) and local artists.

My participation came by invitation, followed by an extensive jury selection process. I am thrilled that three of my works were chosen for this significant fundraiser, and one of them, Light Hall, sold at the opening. Art Night 2K25 raised a whopping $164,960 in celebration and support of WPA and local arts, making it their highest fundraiser in 25 years! I am thrilled that I played a small role in this historical achievement.

I had a solo exhibition by the invitation of the curator, Roya Chadab at the Iranian-American Community Center as part of Patterned Nuances, a three-artist exhibit featuring works by Iran Davar Ardalan, Sookkyoung Park, and my own.

My section included 33 pieces created between 2015 and 2025, presenting a retrospective look at my artistic journey over the past decade. This exhibition showcased how I have expanded my main series by transforming linear divisions into perspective cuts, thereby generating my color fields within a simulation of depth. The majority of the works were created between 2023 and 2025, as my collections have become more diverse in recent years.

The exhibit ran from September 7 to October 5 and received notable recognition, including a positive review from DC’s prominent art critic, Mark Jenkins, in his October 3, 2025, coverage of local galleries.