Kamrooz Aram is an Iranian-American artist whose paintings and drawings use tropes from traditional Iranian and Islamic art. He brings together a variety of familiar motifs and symbols to make new images, and yet he does not assign fixed meanings to them. Images in his work sometimes stand strong but sometimes are almost completely obliterated. With many of his paintings made by scraping away layers of paint from the canvas rather than adding them, Aram’s subject matter, as well as his technique, remains intriguingly elusive.