Anahit Etemadi
Beyond Borders: an Exhibition of Fine Art from Canada
October 7 - October 28, 2011
Reception:
Thursday October 13, 2011 6-8 PM
Press Release
Iranian-born artist Anahit Etemadi creates portraits that convey heartfelt emotion with her characteristically sumptuous color and texture. With deft rendering skills, Etemadi crafts beautiful images of humanity, later adding collage and mixed media elements that imbue the piece with a powerfully emotive character. She pours herself into each work. “While the painting is evolving, it pulls my energy and passion into it until it is completed,” Etemadi explains. “[It] embodies my passion, feeling and energy…forever.”
Her subjects range from infamous celebrities and important world figures, to personal images that often deconstruct the figure in dynamic and symbolic ways. Etemadi has a particular fondness for the female form, believing that women have a unique consciousness and connectedness to the world. Behind the dazzling eyes of Marilyn Monroe or the arched body of a female figure, we see washes of modulating color streaming down the canvas like a waterfall. This stylistic convention displays the fragility of human life, the role of chance in our existence, and the fleeting days that are uniquely ours.
Artist Statement
The result of strong magnetism to colors, and my evolved energy and fast technique, is a painting that embodies my passion and energy forever. This happens when I am in a certain vibe and state of mind and the painting pulls my energy into itself. I am inspired by my ancient Persian culture, the infinity of the universe and the fragility of the earth. The philosophy behind my art works is “Freedom, Love and Peace”. If human beings experience freedom from limitations and negativities of any kind, then they would feel love for everything and everyone. Subsequently profound peace would emerge throughout the earth.
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