Process & Practice: Abdolreza Aminlari and Nazanin Noroozi in Conversation
MARCH 14, 2023 | 6:30 PM
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Join us for a conversation between multidisciplinary artists Abdolreza Aminlari and Nazanin Noroozi. As artists and friends, they will discuss their recent projects, their exploration of paper as a medium in the Dieu Donné studio, and their relationships to materiality, ideas of home, memory, social practice, immigration, and more.
Abdolreza Aminlari lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Aminlari completed the AICAD/New York Studio Residency Program in 2001 and received his B.F.A. from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, in 2002. Aminlari has had solo exhibitions at Situations Gallery (New York, NY), Andrew Rafacz Gallery (Chicago, IL), O Gallery (Tehran, Iran), Longhouse Projects (New York, NY), and Taymour Grahne Gallery (New York, NY). Recent group exhibitions include Van Doren Waxter, (New York, NY), Hunterdon Art Museum (Clinton, NJ), Tyler Parks Presents (Los Angeles, CA), Golestani Gallery (Düsseldorf, Germany), Kristen Lorello Gallery (New York, NY), Foley Gallery (New York, NY), and Abrons Art Center (New York, NY). Aminlari's work has received reviews and mentions in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, and Art Asia Pacific. He recently created an artist project with Dieu Donné and was invited as Artist in Residence at West Elm concentrating on Ceramics. Collections include TD Bank Corporate Art Collection, Toronto, CA; New York-Presbyterian, New York, NY; Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH; Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA; College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI.
Nazanin Noroozi is a multimedia artist incorporating moving images, printmaking and alternative photography processes to reflect on notions of collective memory, displacement and fragility. Noroozi’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including the Immigrant Artist Biennial, Noyes Museum of Art, NY Live Arts, Prizm Art Fair, and Columbia University. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from New York Foundation for the arts (video & film), Marabeth Cohen-Tyler Print/Paper Fellowship, Artistic Freedom Initiative, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYFA IAP 2018, Mass MoCA Residency, and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She is an editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Noroozi completed her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute. Her works have been featured in various publications and media including BBC News Persian, Elephant Magazine, Financial Times, and Brooklyn Rail.