Y.Z. Kami is widely known for his monumental portrait paintings composed of hazy brushstrokes in muted colors. While collaborating with the Neiman Center for almost a year, he returned to the image of the Messenger, a mystical figure, with his back turned towards the viewer, cloaked in a white robe and holding a walking stick that he had explored in earlier paintings. He render the image in two elemental woodcuts that distill the figure and landscape into its most basic forms and printed them on delicate cream and brown papers.

Y.Z. Kami (b. 1956 Tehran, Iran) is a painter who lives and works in New York. His work has been the subject of several exhibitions both in the United States and abroad including at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (2003), Arthur M. Sacker Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington (2008), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2016-17) and Museum de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León in Spaing (2022-23). Kami’s work is in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; and British Museum, London, among others

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