You are invited to join us Wednesday evening, February 13th, 2019 from 6PM – 8PM for an engaging talk with the artist, Azadeh Sahraeian. Azadeh will be discussing the extraordinary abstract drawings in her Schlesinger Art Center solo exhibition, “Form and Formation” as well as her artistic process.
ARTIST STATEMENT
My artistic practice is more focused on the formation process rather than the form itself; hence, my drawings represent the process of genesis and growth; the lines grow from points that have been set on motion, as the plant grows from its seed. Each drawing begins with a single element, a “center”, and continues with duplication process in which strong centers evolve in levels of scale, pronounced boundaries and alternative repetition.
Emerging new centers continue till the whole drawing evolves. In this process there is a reciprocal insight between centers and the whole; as one finds ways to better understand the centers, the whole becomes better defined and the clarity of the whole makes centers more clear and yet they say more about the whole. Thus, my meticulous art works come along with a gradual formation in level of details. They are harmonious whole yet developed step-by-step; organic yet abstract; unpredictable yet mathematical; ordered yet chaotic; still yet fluxing. There is a continuous mutation in the process of emerging; an ongoing dialogue between formation and deformation in which my drawings unfold only a spectrum of it. As an architect and artist I like to create living things; not biologically alive but things that have a perceptible degree of life.
Observing natural and man-made patterns and complex systems enable me to define my method in art. Hence, instead of replicating finished forms that are already settled, whether as images in the mind or as objects in the world I’d rather follow the order of these natural and artificial structures in order to generate my artworks based on their properties and characteristics.
Please leave plenty of time to navigate DC traffic. There will be plenty of parking in the Visitors Garage.
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