Azadeh Elmizadeh
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| Born | 1987 Tehran, Iran |
| Education | BFA from University of Tehran, BFA from OCAD, MFA from University of Guelph |
| Known for | Artist |
| Website | https://azadehelmizadeh.com/ |
Azadeh Elmizadeh is an Iranian-Canadian visual artist working between painting and collage [1][2]. Elmizadeh uses Persian miniature painting in her work.
She received her Bachelor's degree in visual communication and graphic design from the University of Tehran in 2010. In 2016, she got a Bachelor of Fine Arts from OCAD. She earned her Master's of Fine Arts in Studio Art at the University of Guelph in August 2020 [3].
She has won several awards, including Toronto Arts Council (2021), and Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting (2020).
Select works
Sister Seeds (2022)
Sister Seeds is an art exhibition featuring the work of Elmizadeh, which draws on Persian mythologies to explore the mutability of narrative and challenge cultural boundaries. The exhibition focuses on two female characters from creation myths, Arenavak and Sanghavak, who are associated with fertility and wisdom. Elmizadeh's paintings do not contain specific narrative references but use the devices of storytelling to create complex layers of meaning [4]. The exhibition highlights the ways in which contingency, uncertainty, and translation can be used as strategies to undermine prescribed cultural boundaries. "Sister Seeds" is notable for its use of translucent surfaces, which foreground the mutability of narrative and its resistance to fixity and rigid meaning-making through language. The exhibition represents a continuation of Elmizadeh's investigation into the dissolution of figure within narrative, allowing bodies and beings to occupy multiple identities and spaces simultaneously [5].
Subtle Bodies (2020)
Subtle Bodies is an art exhibition featuring the debut solo works of Azadeh Elmizadeh. The suite of nine paintings uses translucent veils of color to suggest form through color's own depth and vitality [6]. Inspired by Persian miniature paintings, Elmizadeh's durational process of layering and sanding into pigment reveals the history of the painting itself, making the frame both a site of spatial and aesthetic experimentation and historical excavation. The exhibition explores the metaphysical possibilities of the medium as informed by twelfth-century Sufi cosmologies and their attendant mythologies, resulting in works that resist gravity and reflect the weightless, flickering image of the imagination [7]. "Subtle Bodies" offers a pensive reflection on the liminality of existence and expands the discursive and aesthetic frames through which we make meaning in the world, refusing the abstracted self-referentiality of Western contemporary painting styles [8].
References
- ↑ "Azadeh Elmizadeh - Biography". www.askart.com. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "Azadeh Elmizadeh - Azadeh Elmizadeh | Art Toronto Speaker". arttoronto.ca. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ↑ "CV — Azadeh Elmizadeh". azadehelmizadeh.com. Retrieved 2023-03-08.
- ↑ "Azadeh Elmizadeh: Sister Seeds | Exhibitions | MutualArt". franzkaka.com. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ↑ "Azadeh Elmizadeh at Franz Kaka – Art Viewer". Retrieved 2023-04-01.
- ↑ "Azadeh Elmizadeh: Subtle Bodies | Exhibitions | MutualArt". franzkaka.com. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ↑ "Azadeh Elmizadeh's Subtle Bodies". The Editorial Magazine. 2020-11-18. Retrieved 2023-03-14.
- ↑ Wilkinson, Jayne. "Azadeh Elmizadeh". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2023-04-01.
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