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Max Emadi Joins Ariki Art Online Gallery

"Max" Makan Emadi was born in Iran, emigrating to Southern California in 1979 with his family when he was fourteen years old. While attending Claremont High School he became interested in art courses and took Ceramics for four years. Following high school, he studied sculpting with Betty Davenport Ford.

Max's career took him away from art for many years. He received training and worked as a Certified Chemical Dependency Counselor and found his second passion in the helping field. He pursued his education by completing a bachelor's degree in social work at California Polytechnic at Pomona, and a master's degree in the same field from California State University at Long Beach.

After becoming secure in his career as a psychotherapist and beginning his current job for the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, as well as joining the adjunct faculty at Mount San Antonio College, he decided to revisit the artistic interests of his teens.

In the last few years, Max has participated in a number of group shows & been featured in four solo exhibitions in the Los Angeles area. Max devotes most of his artistic energy to painting with oils, and painting has become such a part of his daily routine that he recently found himself taking his paints and a canvas away with him on a trip so that he could get his daily fix.

Max also pursues an interest in ceramic art, and attends weekly ceramic classes with his wife.  Max has done a series of ceramic sculptures that he has titled "Beautiful Monsters" and which will be featured at Ariki Art in the near future.

We are launching Max at Ariki Art with a recent series of provocative paintings that he did featuring Islamic women as "calendar girls".  As we know, Islamic law prescribes a modest dress code, known as the hijab, requiring women to be covered from head to toe when in the presence of a man other than a close family member (Mahram).  As we are all well aware, it is forbidden fruit that is the most tempting, and the women in Max's series of paintings demonstrate how much more sensual a woman becomes when she is breaking a taboo.

Ms. August
Max Emadi
2004 : Oil on Canvas : 13.5" x 16.5"

Max Emadi's Islamic Calendar Girls

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