As Clear As Day,
Mixed Media and collage on Canvas
51” x 53”
Final Days of Winter,
Mixed Media and collage on Canvas
40" x 60"
We Can Only Catch Glimpses of Things
2022
152.4 x 91.44cm
Mixed Media andCollage on Canvas
You can’t hit a moving target
2024
Mixed Media and
Collage
on Canvas
8 x 8 ft
Open Reflection
2023
231 x 231 cm
Mixed Media and Collage
on canvas
My City Holding Its Breath,
2022
Mixed Media and collage on Canvas
60h x 36w in / 152.4h x 91.44w cm
Drowning in Headlines,
2022
Mixed Media and collage on Canvas
60h x 48w / 152.4h x 121.92w cm
My owe Seat at the Table,
2022
Mixed Media and Collage on Canvas
61.5h x 72w in / 156.21h x 182.88w cm
What You Left Behind,
2020
Mixed Media and Collage on Canvas
60.50h x 80w in / 153.67h x 203.20w cm
Untitled (Amnesia Series)
Mixed media on canvas
72.25 x 60.5 inches
Untitled (Amnesia Series)
Mixed media on canvas
60.75 x 83.6 inches
Untitled (Amnesia Series)
Mixed media on canvas
72 x 52.75 inches
Parinaz Eleish was born in Tehran to an Iranian mother (historian/publisher) and an Egyptian father (economist). She grew up in Tehran until high school and finished her diploma in Switzerland before coming to the US for her higher education. Eleish recieved a BFA in Film Production and Painting from Emerson College and the Museum of Fine Arts in 1981. She holds two MFAs: one in Film Production from Boston University and one in English Writing and Poetry from the University of New Hampshire.
After graduation, Eleish worked in various areas of film production at different independent Boston film production companies. For five years she held the position of film and media coordinator at the French Library and Cultural Center, now merged with the Alliance Francaise in Boston. In 1993 Eleish moved to back to Tehran where she had her own painting company Samarkand a Faux Real co., which specialized in faux finish painting. Eleish returned to the US after three years and started Damascus Dreams, a one man hand crafted jewelry design company specializing in work with ancient beads, before she began painting full-time.
Eleish has published poetry in English and recently published a novel in farsi which is available in print and audio on Amazon, iTunes and related book stores as well as in Iran.
Eleish and her husband Yahya Gharagozlou and live most of the time in Boston, and part time Tehran. She has two daughters Leila and Homa. Her studio is located in Brighton MA.