Artists

editions

exhibitions

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

EPOCH

White Div I,

2019

Glair on sanctioned Iranian currency

33 x 25 inches

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White Div II,

2019

Glair on sanctioned Iranian currency

33 x 25 inches

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White Div III,

2019

Glair on sanctioned Iranian currency

33 x 25 inches

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White Div I - III Install

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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,

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)

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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)

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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,

2019

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

47 x 35 inches

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2019

Graphite on paper

6 x 4 inches

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Adriane Colburn

Alex Zecca

Alice Shaw

Amy Franceschini

Andrew Romanoff

Bonanza

Carson Ellis

David Hytone

Fox Hysen

Graham Gillmore

Inez Storer

Jason Jägel

Jason Middlebrook

Jeffrey Sincich

Jered Sprecher

Jim Melchert

Johanna St. Clair

Jonn Herschend

Josh Jefferson

Kim Bennett

Lowell Darling

Martin McMurray

Michelle Grabner

Nathaniel Parsons

Nathaniel Russell

Rebeca Bollinger

Reed Anderson

Rex Ray Estate

Richard Shaw

Scott Hewicker

Shaun O'Dell

Taravat Talepasand

Thomas Heinser

Tucker Nichols

Wayne Smith

Zuzana Licko

Ala Ebtekar

Amy Ellingson

Ann Chamberlain

Ari Marcopoulos

Barry Gifford

Brad Killam

Bruno Fazzolari

Carol Selter

Charles Linder

Cliff Hengst

Darren Waterston

David Perry

Deborah Oropallo

Double Strength

Elliot Anderson

Gay Outlaw

Harrell Fletcher

Kara Maria

Libby Black

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Margaret Kilgallen

Off Hours

Rudy Vanderlans

Serena Cole

Sonny Smith

Xylor Jane

editions

exhibitions

Selected Works

Bio

EXHIBITIONS

EPOCH

White Div I,

White Div II,

White Div III,

White Div I - III Install

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 IV,

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 II,

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)

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 (Detail)