Once in a while you come across somebody and you realize in that moment they're important in art history, and maybe their story hasn't been told yet. In this case, I don't think it really has. You see, my guest today is Shahrokh Rezvani and he's a very interesting man to say the least. He immigrated to the United States from Iran.

What makes him so interesting is this journey that he's had with people like Fritz Scholder and Dale Chihuly and working with them to created monotypes, cyanotypes, and all sorts of different kinds of prints. He came to a show I was doing in Scottsdale, and I could see him looking at the Scholders that I had in my booth, and I could tell there was a connection, and not a connection in the way you might see with a collector or someone who's an artist even... but a different kind of sensibility.

I approached him and asked if he knew Cholder personally and he said "oh, yeah, he was a great person. I knew Fritz and I knew him well." I said, okay, well, tell me about it. He talked to me all about Fritz and their working relationship from 1977 to 1993.

Fast forward to today and Shahrokh is at that age where health can be a problem. I said, well, I want to come up to your house and I want to hear the story, hence this podcast. Now you'll get to hear the story. This wonderful journey of this man's life as an artist and as a master printmaker.

He makes wonderful art himself and I hope that this podcast is as intriguing for you as it was for me. I think this is the type of interview that's going to be used when people tell the story of Fritz Scholder and that connection and collaboration, that he had with Shahrokh.

So I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Shahrokh Rezvani on Art Dealer DIaries Podcast episode 344.