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Taravat Talepasand

Selected Works

Bio

Taravat Talepasand is an Iranian American and boldly explores her bicultural identity in her work. Acknowledging the persistence of memory and the past, and accepting that neither can be buried or wrapped away from sight, Talepasand creates work that highlights female empowerment and, at times, explains the complicated path that the artist has experienced alongside other women. These new sculptural paintings were made by stretching the sanctioned domestic fabrics from Iran over linen. A color field of casein milk paint on the linen highlights the dominant color of each unique, hand printed textile. With the same confident hand, Talepasand paints in tiny areas of narratives - persian miniatures illustrating ceremonies, love, relationships and customs alongside poppies and flowers - some sheathed by the Persian textiles, some intimately embedded within the flowering detail of the textile. These painted narratives explore the artist’s new life as a wife, mother and slowly unwind the patterns of her family and upbringing.

EXHIBITIONS

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White Div I

White Div I,

2019

Glair on sanctioned Iranian currency

33 x 25 inches

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White Div II

White Div II,

2019

Glair on sanctioned Iranian currency

33 x 25 inches

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White Div III

White Div III,

2019

Glair on sanctioned Iranian currency

33 x 25 inches

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White Div I - III Install

White Div I - III Install

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Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions I

Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions I,

2019

Egg tempera, acrylic on oil and hand printed textile from Isfahan, Iran

65 x 35 inches

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Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions IV

Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions IV,

2019

Egg tempera, acrylic on oil and hand printed textile from Isfahan, Iran

31 x 19 inches

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Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions IV (Detail)

Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions IV (Detail)

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Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions II

Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions II,

2019

Egg tempera, acrylic on oil and hand printed textile from Isfahan, Iran

65 x 35 inches

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Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions II (Detail)

Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions II (Detail)

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Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions II (Detail)

Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions II (Detail)

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Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions III

Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions III,

2019

Egg tempera, acrylic on oil and hand printed textile from Isfahan, Iran

47 x 35 inches

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Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions III (Detail)

Customs and The Manners of The Women of Persia, and Their Domestic Superstitions III (Detail)

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Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions V

Customs and the Manners of the Women of Persia, and their Domestic Superstitions V,

2019

Egg tempera, acrylic on oil and hand printed textile from Isfahan, Iran

31 x 19 inches

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Fuck Trump (SOLD)

Fuck Trump (SOLD),

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Of Charms, and the Means of destroying the Effects of Witchcraft

Of Charms, and the Means of destroying the Effects of Witchcraft

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Of those Laws which are Deemed Imperative

Of those Laws which are Deemed Imperative,

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Of Fruits and Flowers, as Symbols of Feeling and Passion

Of Fruits and Flowers, as Symbols of Feeling and Passion,

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Of Male and Female Gossips and Intimates (SOLD)

Of Male and Female Gossips and Intimates (SOLD),

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Of the Conduct of the Wife to her Husband

Of the Conduct of the Wife to her Husband,

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Of the Nuptial Night (SOLD)

Of the Nuptial Night (SOLD),

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Wifey (SOLD)

Wifey (SOLD),

2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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