Sheida Soleimani B. 1990, Indianapolis, Indiana. Lives and works in Providence, Rhode Island. —Isabelle Sakelaris The daughter of politically engaged Iranian refugees, Sheida Soleimani creates works that address world events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and violence against women, by examining power structures through a feminist lens. In an interview with the British Journal of Photography, Soleimani remarked, “I consider my work a feminist practice, because it’s associated with the so-called female practices of cutting, making, and even care-taking.” Whether using found material…Read More
“A Lovers’ Herbal” is Shelton’s first solo show since New Zealand legalized abortion (for up to twenty weeks’ gestation) in March 2020. This web presentation, dense with information, displays new photographs from “jane says,” a short video interview, ikebana book images, and texts that detail the links between colonialism and the suppression of herbal medical knowledge.
Future Retrieval: Close Parallel opens at the Cincinnati Art Museum on February 26 and features contemporary reimaginings of works from the Museum’s extensive permanent collection.
“I’m interested in finding/discovering/choreographing moments of uncertainty that exist in the image, but not in the ‘real’ spatial condition,” says Erin O’Keefe, erstwhile architecture professor turned full-time photographer of vision-confounding images. “You are left with just the image and its wrongness—you can never backtrack to compare, although the question of how it was made is still present.”
The art duo’s “Close Parallel” exhibition launches this month at the Cincinnati Art Museum.
The new paintings imagined as a how-to manual for Fallah’s son, featuring icons, imagery, and references to the culture that forms us—from advertising and pop culture to the books we read as children.
As a photographer who captures images of elaborate stage-like sets, Sheida Soleimani is engaged with contradictory modes.
Artist Ann Shelton and Critic Claire Voon will be in conversation about the artist’s current virtual exhibition “A Lovers’ Herbal” at Denny Dimin Gallery.
Ann Shelton’s new work ‘an invitation to dance’ was commissioned by Photo Australia and the Metro Tunnel Creative Program for PHOTO 2021.
After a Sexual Assault, an Artist Paints Women Who Can’t Be Knocked Down
Future Retrieval’s exhibition Close Parallel at the Cincinnati Art Museum, February 26–August 29, 2021.
Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend: From Albers and Morandi at David Zwirner to Amir H. Fallah at Denny Dimin.
Amir H. Fallah, Painting For An Audience Of One With Lessons For A Lifetime
Join Artist Amir H. Fallah and Collector Liz Dimmitt on Zoom Thursday, January 28th at 7pm EST. Watch the recording.
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“Tracing Networks of Political Corruption in Sheida Soleimani’s Slick, Hyper-Stylized Tableaux” by Cassie Packard
The Iranian-American artist invites us into her converted, 19th century barn in Rhode Island, where politically charged installations co-exist with her hobby of rehabilitating injured wildlife.
Shieda Soleimani: Hotbed featured in the New York Times 5 art gallery shows to see. Read more on the New York Times.
Exhibition catalog for Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed with essay by Jane Ursula Harris.
Sean Fader’s work reviewed by David J. Getsy published in ASAP Journal published by John Hopkins University Press.
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Elizabeth Denny’s top picks the Miami Beach fair featured in UNTITLED, ART.
Jeremy Couillard is presenting a new video “Voluntary Associations” with the Daata Fair in Miami, The Bass and the New World Symphony.
Review of Michael Mandiberg’s “The Zoom Paintings” in The Economist.
Sheida Soleimani: Hotbed featured in Hyperallergic New York Art Guide for December 2020.
