Traces of Being: Iran in the Passage of Memories explores the primacy of personal memory against a backdrop of divergent cultural experiences and collective histories. Viewers are invited to participate by contributing their own ephemera–written accounts, objects, or images–to an interactive timeline of Iran's contemporary history between the years of 1979-2009.
Curator Shervin Shahbazi asked the participating artists to "create work based on their personal memories of Iran–or lack thereof—and, in the process, reflect on two different memories: One they would like to save and one they wish to delete even though purposeful forgetting is humanly impossible".
Media Preview: Thursday, September 10, 2009; 12:00-2:00 PM
Public Preview: Thursday, September 10, 2009; 6:00-9:00 PM
Artist Reception: Saturday, September 12, 2009; 6:00-10:00 PM
Featured Artists:
Pantea Karimi
Karimi has lived, studied and worked in Iran, England and the United States. She received her Masters in graphic design from Tehran Art University in 1999, and BTEC Diploma in printmaking from Hastings College of Arts and Technology in England in 2004. She earned a MFA in Printmaking and Painting at San Jose State University, California this past spring.
Amitis Motevalli
Born in Tehran, Motevalli moved to the US in 1977. In 1995 she received a BA from SFSU in Art with a minor in Women's studies and in 1998 an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. She is the recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship, the James Irvine Fellowship, and the National Endowment for the Arts/Warhol Foundation Artist Fellowship. As an art educator at the William Grant Still Art Center, she works to create social change with her students on issues of civil rights through pedagogy.
Fereshteh Toosi
Toosi received a BA from Oberlin College in Ohio in 1998 and worked in Japan under the Shansi Memorial Association Fellowship from 1998-2000 before completing her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 2004. Toosi participated in artist residency programs in New York, Chicago, and Virginia. She has taught art at Saint Mary's College of Maryland and served as Faculty Fellow in Arts and Civic Engagement at Syracuse University. Toosi currently lectures in the New Millennium Studies program at Columbia College Chicago.
Hushidar Mortezaie
Shervin Shahbazi
As a Los Angeles-based curator and arts professional, Shahbazi curated the first Long Beach Art Walk in 1998, as well as LA 225, an exhibition commemorating the City's 225th birthday at El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument. Shahbazi is the recipient of public art commissions by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and Los Angeles World Airports to curate exhibitions of contemporary LA-based artists at Los Angeles International Airport. In addition to his extensive portfolio of exhibitions, he has worked at the Museum of Latin American Art, the Bowers Museum, and Self-Help Graphics & Art, and served as grant review panelist for the Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
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