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Arianna Garcia-Fialdini
This artwork is an attempt to playfully examine the current ways I experience diverse realities in relation to creativity. My artistic goal is to concentrate on storytelling in the form of portraits that humanize and represent socio-political experiences, whilst expressing my own perspective as a form of activism on diverse situations. |
Untitled
monoprint, lithograph
24 x 24 inches
2021
monoprint, lithograph
24 x 24 inches
2021
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Zahra Hosseini
About ten years ago, I decided to free my disabled body for the first time from the bounds with which I had lived for three decades. I knew that attacking the safe spots that had been shaping my corporeal and behavioral habits could affect my artistic development. This was a process that started with therapy and ended in concerns about the representations of the disabled body in contemporary art. |
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Asymmetrical Body
monoprint 8.3 x 11.4 inches 2018 |
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Shahrzad Tahmasebi
This rough drawing of a bull expresses the feeling of conflict and tension. I wanted to emphasize this feeling through the use of very different perspectives for the bull's head and body. |
Conflict
charcoal, mixed media
9 x 12 inches
2017
charcoal, mixed media
9 x 12 inches
2017
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Shahrzad Tahmasebi
In this painting I used cold and blue colors to show the feeling of suspension. A figure with no upper body and with two certain legs on the ground, still purposeful and firm. |
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Suspension
mixed media on canvas 19.6 x 28 inches 2012 |
Stay Colorful
pastel 11 3/4 x 16 1/2 inches 2013 |
Shahrzad Tahmasebi
Throughout difficult days, she is wearing red and sitting on a bright green sofa, probably listening to jazz music, while surrounded by colorful lights thinking about her great goals. |
Sheng Hui Jin
Being hyper creative from an ideological and visual dimension has been my utter pleasure and interest in my art practice. As an eccentric art student in the final year of undergraduate study, I created these two paintings using traditional mediums, vibrant colors, crazy patterns and complicated compositions to fully express my emotions and perceptions towards the world we are reincarnated in. My art reaches to all life stages of humans - everyone will interpret my art in their own way. I fully respect every single artists' work but I cannot be influenced by any of them. I have my own distinctive style which may not be accepted, but I simply do not care. My artworks are representative of myself and my shadow. Life is too short to let anyone's idea mess up my ingredients. In our limited physical space, I am trying to create an unlimited ideological space for myself and the viewers who would like to settle their chaotic spirits inside of my art "shelter."
Being hyper creative from an ideological and visual dimension has been my utter pleasure and interest in my art practice. As an eccentric art student in the final year of undergraduate study, I created these two paintings using traditional mediums, vibrant colors, crazy patterns and complicated compositions to fully express my emotions and perceptions towards the world we are reincarnated in. My art reaches to all life stages of humans - everyone will interpret my art in their own way. I fully respect every single artists' work but I cannot be influenced by any of them. I have my own distinctive style which may not be accepted, but I simply do not care. My artworks are representative of myself and my shadow. Life is too short to let anyone's idea mess up my ingredients. In our limited physical space, I am trying to create an unlimited ideological space for myself and the viewers who would like to settle their chaotic spirits inside of my art "shelter."
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Coco
oil on wood 25 x 25 inches 2020 |
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Dystopian Realm
acrylic on canvas
35 x 45 inches
2020
acrylic on canvas
35 x 45 inches
2020
Nadeem Al Haj Zein
Anxiety and hope, creation and control.
There are certain emotions and reactions we all experience on a daily basis. These emotions, the human mind, and its reactions are the first things that come to mind when I put pencil to paper, paintbrush to canvas, or at the click of a mouse button on Photoshop. It is my own reactions and emotions that drive me to create, even if only on a subconscious level. Often, it is when I reflect on what I had been so excited to create that I truly understand what it is that I had just made and how it is a lot deeper than I had initially thought. It shows me more than it shows you the viewer, or maybe it doesn’t, I don’t know I’m not you. But it shows me something and I just hope that you see it too, or at least you see something and you can reflect on it like I have, or maybe you just like the way it looks. I used to simply like the way it looks, until I considered it more deeply, until the colors spoke to me, until the faces told me a story, a story of anxiety and hope, creation and control, and maybe a story of peace.
Anxiety and hope, creation and control.
There are certain emotions and reactions we all experience on a daily basis. These emotions, the human mind, and its reactions are the first things that come to mind when I put pencil to paper, paintbrush to canvas, or at the click of a mouse button on Photoshop. It is my own reactions and emotions that drive me to create, even if only on a subconscious level. Often, it is when I reflect on what I had been so excited to create that I truly understand what it is that I had just made and how it is a lot deeper than I had initially thought. It shows me more than it shows you the viewer, or maybe it doesn’t, I don’t know I’m not you. But it shows me something and I just hope that you see it too, or at least you see something and you can reflect on it like I have, or maybe you just like the way it looks. I used to simply like the way it looks, until I considered it more deeply, until the colors spoke to me, until the faces told me a story, a story of anxiety and hope, creation and control, and maybe a story of peace.
Sincerity
acrylic on canvas
47 x 39 inches
2021
acrylic on canvas
47 x 39 inches
2021
Riesbri
Lucky Charm is a project that interrogates new ways of encountering current realities. It was inspired by real life events: I had never seen a four-leaf clover before, but as I was walking my mom to her chemotherapy sessions, I was able to appreciate the small unnoticed details of life, like the fauna and flora surrounding us. As a result of this pressure and fear of losing someone, I was more attentive to my surroundings, and found several four-leaf clovers. To mask this fear, I would smile and make her feel lucky that I found these clovers, using it as a token for her recovery, even though I was terrified.
Lucky Charm is a project that interrogates new ways of encountering current realities. It was inspired by real life events: I had never seen a four-leaf clover before, but as I was walking my mom to her chemotherapy sessions, I was able to appreciate the small unnoticed details of life, like the fauna and flora surrounding us. As a result of this pressure and fear of losing someone, I was more attentive to my surroundings, and found several four-leaf clovers. To mask this fear, I would smile and make her feel lucky that I found these clovers, using it as a token for her recovery, even though I was terrified.
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Lucky Charm
acrylic on canvas 36 x 36 inches each (diptych) 2021 |
