Beyond Boundaries: Iranian women artists in Berkeley
Worth Ryder Gallery,
116 Kroeber Hall, Bancroft Way at College Avenue
UC Berkeley
June 10- July 1
Opening reception: Saturday, June 10, 6-9 pm
After several months of hard work by many dedicated people, I am happy
to announce that the exhibition Beyond Boundaries is about to open this
Saturday, the 10th of June. Beyond Boundaries, features contemporary
art of nineteen Iranian women, gathered from around the world. I am very
excited to be part of this exhibition that is being presented by the Iranian
Women's Studies Foundation's 11th conference (IWSF2000), and sponsored
by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California,
Berkeley. There will be a catalog for the show available for sale at
the opening.
I will be exhibiting: Mehrab: The wall of Stories -- a structure presented
as part of the installation/ performance Sacred Space/ Layered Stories
at the Lab in San Francisco, in 1995. (Mehrab: a niche in a mosque, marking
the direction of Mecca and creating a focus for meditation and prayer.)
Using the traditional structure of a mehrab, I have embedded collected
writings, poetry and pages of journals of Iranian women on the surfaces
of the mehrab in place of the Islamic calligraphy . Altering the Islamic
structure, and replacing the Islamic calligraphy with stories of women
as a way to give voice to the stories of women.
For more information about the IWSF Conference 2000, June 15-18, please
visit IWSF.org or call 408-262-5092
Other artists of the exhibition:
- Soudabeh Ardavan, drawings, Sweden
- Rana Bastani, assemblage, Bay Area
- Aaram Bayat, photography, Canada
- Jaleh A. Etemad , Painting, Bay Area
- Aylene Fallah, installation, Washington, DC
- Shorhreh Fayzdjou (In memory of), Installation, France
- Shadafarin Ghadirian, Photography, Iran
- Mitra Ghafari, collaborative painting, Bay Area
- Fereshteh Hamidi Toosi, Artist's Books, Japan
- Gita Hashemi, digital media, Canada
- Roshan Houshmand, Mixed Media Painting, PA
- Marjan Karim, Sculpture, NY
- Kendal Kennedy, Ink on Paper, CT
- Mallie Mehryar, Installation, Bay Area
- Tara Mozafarian, Mixed Media Painting, LA
- Haleh Niazmand, Mixed Media Painting,IA
- Afarin Rahmanifar, Painting, CT
- Naz Shahrokh, Mixed Media, NY
- Termeh Yeghiyazarian, Installation, Bay Area
Hope to see you there at the opening!
Taraneh Hemami
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