Opens September 7 through September 29, 2001
To kick off the 2001
fall season, M.Y. ART PROSPECTS is pleased to announce a collaborative
project with the Center
for Iranian Modern Arts (CIMA) introducing works by Seyed Alavi,
Aylene Fallah, Taraneh Hemami and Haleh Niazmand. Curated and organized
by CIMA, this exhibition is supported in part by the New York City Department
of Cultural Affairs Challenge Program. An exhibition catalogue will be
available at the opening and throughout the exhibition.
Seyed Alavi creates poetic site-specific installations incorporating
Iranian Sufi tradition, poetry and Persian calligraphy into elements of
form and composition. His new works explore subtle meanings attached to
words, evoke the poetics of language and space and examine their power
to shape our reality.
Aylene Fallah extends the boundaries of process art into unsettling
conceptual commentaries. Using unusual Persian source materials Aylene
Fallah goes beyond the linearity of capturing and reducing experiences
and enters into a simultaneous "all-at-once" environment. Using
her own images, she transfers and revises identities, but diffuses the
nostalgia into multicultural dialogues.
Taraneh Hemami is a conceptual artist who utilizes the letters of
a language that she can no longer use to communicate ideas of loss and
cultural identity. Thus her works become an alchemy of the years past,
recounting the landscape of her personal time, and marking the dates that
hold personal and historical significance.
Haleh Niazmand satirizes the influences of the mass media's exotic
image of Iranian culture. Her multilayered visual/intellectual comments
on myths and stereotypes challenge the viewer to contemplate ideological
questions. Haleh Niazmand proposes numerous cultural languages and possibilities
in each exploration, creating an aesthetically powerful and sociologically
interesting alchemy.
Seyed Alavi received his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute, and has
created numerous site-specific installations at various institutions around
the country. Aylene Fallah studied sculpture at Virginia Commonwealth
University and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States
and Canada. Taraneh Hemami holds an MFA in Painting from California College
of Arts and Crafts and has received several awards including the 2000
Creative Work Fund and the 2001 San Francisco Art Commission Cultural
Equity Grant. Haleh Niazmand received her MFA from the University of Arizona
and recently completed a two-year residency at the Des Moines Art Center
in Iowa. Her works have been the topic of many scholarly papers.
Opening reception: Saturday, September 15, 4-6pm.
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