We enjoyed visiting with the artist and good in depth conversation.
If you ever get a chance it is worth the wonderful visual ride to
BIjan Mahmoodi’s Circle Museum.
http://alloveralbany.com/archive/2008/08/27/the-circle-museum
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM0jC3h3Pjs
The Circle Museum is a registered Columbia County Museum consisting of over 100 large-scale works of sculpture. In this location for 25 years, BIjan Mahmoodi is the owner of the museum and the artist. His art reflects his fascination with hard-to-find Industrial Era fabricated metals and bronze casting. Inside the artist’s studio, also on the property, is a collection of Bijan’s oil paintings that explore the circle motif you see in most of his sculptures.
Why is it called the Circle Museum? Bijan explains…. “Because our planet is based on the circle – the sun, the planets, the moon and life itself is cyclical.The circle is what inspires me.”