About Sherie Afrooz Ahmadi André
Sherie Afrooz Ahmadi André is a classically trained figurative abstract expressionist. Most of her work is created live and on location. And explores motion in four distinct genres simultaneously.
Graduate of the New York Academy of Art where she studied with Frank Porcu, Dean Keller, Andy Conklin, and Ted Schmidt, she furthered her investigation of the human form at the Art Students league in New York City.
While in New York, she co-founded a seasonal art school in an international town in Umbria, Italy where she later lived at for a decade depicting the surrounding landscape for private and public commissions, exhibitions, artist residencies and media coverage.
Apprentice of a traditional 3rd generation artisan bottega for art conservation while there, she completed restoration of antique pieces in private celebrity collections for eight years all around Italy.
While on field study in Seville to complete a commission by the Spanish Guitar Festival in Italy she was commissioned by the city's Flamenco Dance Museum to present work for the 2012 Flamenco Biennial.
She soon after became the Museum's resident artist where she furthered her appropriation of Shodo Asian calligraphy taught to her by Roberto Gobesso in Rome through painting Flamenco dancers live at the Museum.
She concurrently pursued her Flamenco education in its 20th year through a scholarship by the Museum's dance school run by world class artists and performers. She appeared with them in a number of media in Asia and in Europe.
In 2014 she was commissioned to create a series for a royal visit by the Japanese Emperor to the Museum. Copies of these large pieces have been commissioned by collectors in France and in Singapore.
Her gestural sketches as well as her large figurative pieces have become part of the Museum's permanent collection as well as that of its global collectors from the 200,000 yearly visitors and her long standing corporate and individual clients in Italy.
In 2018 she began performing as both live painter and dancer in Los Angeles with Manuel Gutierrez with whom she continued her Flamenco practice. In 2019 she exhibited her paintings and dance at LA's Fountain Theater.
She has been participating in group shows at Las Lagunas Art Gallery and Hugo Rivera Gallery in Laguna Beach since 2020. Her solo exhibition premieres in April 2023 at the Los Angeles Flamenco Festival.
Afrooz has a degree in Industrial Engineering with double minors in International Business and in French. Fully fluent in 5 languages, she has been teaching art and dance to students of all ages and backgrounds for 25 years.
Parsi of origin painter, dancer and choreographer, she currently lives in Tarifa, Spain and works between Seville and Laguna Beach, Los Angeles, California.
