Farnaz Koodak Jahani is a visual artist who was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1986. She graduated from Alzahra University with a B.A. in Visual Communication in 2009. After graduation, she worked as an Art Instructor to help children with disabilities and later experienced working as the in house designer with National Geographic Magazine Farsi in Tehran. In 2013, she came to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. degree… read more in illustration from Savannah College of Art and Design. During her educational exploration, she became obsessed with the world of pattern and surface treatment and this simply changed the rest of her journey.

Farnaz’s philosophical, ethereal, yet elusive thoughts about life effect her work to the point that she began to narrate her most complicated and momentary feelings through lines and layers. Much as life can force unexpected changes to one’s goals and plans, putting pressure on the cut lines in her artwork forces them to break apart the surface and interrupt the audience’s vision. Her distorted images introduce new angles to perceive accidental aesthetic, which she calls The Interrupted Beauties.