{"id":8956,"date":"2012-01-13T21:02:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-13T21:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=8956"},"modified":"2018-10-08T13:32:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T19:32:45","slug":"fahimeh-amiri-at-finch-lane-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/fahimeh-amiri-at-finch-lane-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahimeh Amiri at Finch Lane Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reaching for Liberty by Fahimeh Amiri<\/p><\/div>\n

In Fahimeh Amiri\u2019s \u201cReaching for Liberty,\u201d Darius the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, is seated on his throne in Persepolis, the center of Persian power. He is represented in monumental scale, in the abstracted two-dimensional side view profile of much of the art of the ancient Near East, rendered not with illusionistic depth, but with a flattened geometric style that emphasizes his presence and stature.\u00a0 Above Darius is the personification of a god in the form of a bull.\u00a0 An attendant with a spear stands behind Darius with similar imposing features.\u00a0 In this area of the canvas is a monochrome use of golds and brick reds.\u00a0 The picture is sharply divided diagonally by Darius\u2019 staff, which is a cool shade of blue.\u00a0 On the other side of this is a throng of women.\u00a0 But these are not the women of Darius\u2019 day, a time of\u00a0 \u201cfreedom and power\u201d for Persian women. Draped in black, they are the women of today\u2019s Iran, reaching, the artist says, \u201cto the ancient king to claim a freedom that once existed.\u201d\u00a0 Unlike the abstracted traditional representation of Darius, these figures recede into a depth of space in the style of illusion synonymous with the new world.\u00a0 The blue face of Mithras, the bull-God, looks down on them, as if he is aware of and compassionate with their plight.<\/p>\n

Amiri\u2019s current exhibit at Salt Lake\u2019s Finch Lane Gallery, which opens this evening, features a number of similar works, inspired visually by the artist\u2019s rigorous training in Persian miniature, and thematically by the struggles of women in her native country. One need only acquaint oneself with the historical subject to be completely at home with these approachable paintings and explore the wealth of symbolism and meaning embedded in these works of rich color and bold graphic detailing.\u00a0 Amiri\u2019s art \u201cencompasses the subject of Islam and its influences on Iranian women with glimpses into their psychological and social relationships to Islam,\u2019\u2019 which is made lucid through meaning and metaphor in these rich narratives.<\/p>\n

Finch Lane is lined with narratives like \u201cReaching for Liberty,\u201d testaments to the dynamic history and tradition of the Iranian woman that celebrate her while invoking a sense of sympathy with her challenged role in society today. Although her paintings cross several millennia, Amiri creates painted abstracted narratives that are beautiful and evocative to today\u2019s viewer.\u00a0 While in keeping with ancient aesthetic norms, contemporary viewers adjusted to the aesthetics of the 20th<\/sup> century and the art and traditions of those who borrowed from the East for aesthetic inspiration will not be caught off guard with this art made thus even more palpable to an art savvy viewer.<\/p>\n

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Showing concurrently with Fahimeh Amiri’s paintings are found-art asseblages by\u00a0Lon\u00e9 Vilnius. Both exhibits continue through March 2.<\/p>\n

Date:<\/strong> Jan 13, 2012
\nTime: <\/strong>6-9 pm
\n<\/strong> Address: <\/strong>54 Finch Lane\u00a0Salt Lake City, 84101<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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