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Stateless. Artists Respond to the Refugee Crisis

November 10 - January 29, 2017

2017 Fall

University Art Gallery (UMass Dartmouth Galleries)

Pamela Karimi

STATELESS. Artists Respond to the Refugee Crisis Featuring the work of Gohar Dashti in conjunction with Mehdi Ghadyanloo, Pantea Karimi, and Jodi Stevens Music at the reception: Joseph Boulos-Doumbek, Noah Mangelson-Electric Guitar (emulating the Oud), and John Bonoan-Electric Bass Lecture: Exhibition Stateless brings together the work of four artists who reflect on the recent refugee crisis and issues of human displacement and migration. The Syrian conflict and the subsequent European refugee crisis have dominated not only the news headlines, but also discussions among artists and intellectuals around the world. Due to the significance of these recent events, the College of Visual and Performing Arts has dedicated an exhibition to the topic of migration. Stateless will bring together the works crisis in the Middle East. Through a series of astonishing staged photographs in the remote deserts of the Middle East, Tehran-based photographer Gohar Dashti envisions the plight of homelessness for the millions of people who have recently fled such war zones. Known for his ironic and surreal trompe l'oeil murals in Tehran, through a series of intricate prints artist Mehdi Ghadyanloo displays the difficulties of displacement by portraying crowds of people trapped in uncertain situations. Meanwhile, California-based artist Pantea Karimi showcases a multi-media installation of abstracted medieval maps of major Middle Eastern ports, alluding to a glorious bygone era during which migration of people from and to the Middle East contributed to the advancement of knowledge and commerce. Lastly, through a series of threads interrupted by objects and images, which capture the precarious lives of stateless people, the Southcoast-based Site-specific installation artist Jodi Stevens follows the grim patterns of migration from the Middle East to Europe. In its entirety, the exhibition hopes to inspire the viewer to reflect on the struggles endured in the displacement of migrants. Curated by Dr. Pamela Karimi with assistance from students in her Islamic Art class. Special thanks to Robert Klein Gallery in Boston and Howard Griffin Gallery in London.

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Gohar Dashti

Iranian

Gohar Dashti received her M.A. in Photography from the Fine Art University of Tehran in 2005. After studying photography in Iran, she has spent the last 12 years making the large scale of her practice concerning in social issues with particular references to history and culture through a convergence of interest in anthropology and sociology. She tries with her own means to express the world around her. Her starting point is always her surrounding, her memory, but with her very personal perception of things. She tries to trace her relationship to society and the world in it’s most sensitive way. Her practice continuously develops from life events and connection between the personal and the universal, the political and the fantasised. She has participated in several art residencies and scholarships such as MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH, USA (2017), DAAD award, UdK Berlin, DE (2009-2011); Visiting Arts (1Mile2 Project), Bradford/London, UK (2009) and International Arts & Artists (Art Bridge), Washington DC, USA (2008). She has held various exhibitions around the world, being shown in many museums, festivals and biennales. Her works are in many collections including Victoria and Albert Museum, London (UK), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP), Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston (USA), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City (USA), National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. (USA), Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago (USA) and Kadist Art Foundation, Paris (FR).

http://gohardashti.com/about/

Mehdi Ghadyanloo

Iranian

1981 -

Mehdi Ghadyanloo is an Iranian street artist. He has been painting murals and walls in Tehran since 5 years age. He graduated in MA and decided to illustrate his art on walls. Now, having obtained his experience in those years, he has painted more than 100 walls in Tehran.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5drwAsaymE

Pantea Karimi

Iranian - American

Pantea Karimi has lived, studied, and worked in Iran, the UK and the US and presently resides in San Jose, California. She started her training in painting and classical music at age 14, which led to her decision to pursue art professionally. Karimi earned her MFA in printmaking and painting from San Jose State University in 2009. She also holds a Diploma in printmaking and glassworks from Hastings College of Arts and Technology in England in 2004 and an MFA in graphic design from the Art University in Tehran, Iran, in 1999. Karimi’s fine arts and graphic works are in public and private collections and have been featured in several publications in Iran, Italy, Croatia, the UK and the United States. Her prints and digital works have been exhibited in diverse solo, group and traveling exhibitions in Iran, Algeria, Germany, Croatia, Mexico, the UK, and the United States, including the de Young Museum and the Yerba Buena Art Center in San Francisco, 2012 ZERO1 Biennial, the Triton Museum in Santa Clara, the Peninsula Museum of Art in Burlingame, the Google Company and the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, the San Jose City Hall, the New Bedford Art Museum in Massachusetts, Pikto Gallery in Zagreb, Croatia and Platform in Munich, Germany. Pantea Karimi has given lectures and artist talks in museums and universities including The LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) series in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the recipient of the 2016-2017 Kala Fellowship-Residency Award; the 2010 Distinguished Artist Award by the City of Cupertino Fine Arts Commission; the 2011 Multicultural Arts Leadership Initiative Fellowship; and the 2012 School of Arts and Culture Grant in San Jose, CA. Karimi is a faculty member in the Departments of Visual Arts at Cabrillo College in Aptos and Gavilan College in Gilroy and maintains a studio in Cubberley Studios in Palo Alto, CA.

http://panteakarimi.com/about/

Jodi Stevens

American

Jodi Stevens received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Textiles from East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina in 2006 and completed her MFA in Fibers in 2010, at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. She resides in New Bedford, MA and has shown work in Canada, various locations in the U.S., and more extensively throughout Massachusetts. Stevens has been a visiting artist in residence for several programs in Colorado and Massachusetts. She has directed workshops and participated in textile-based educational outreach programs through museum partnerships and commissions, including the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA and the Albany Institute of History and Art in Albany, New York. Stevens holds ongoing positions as a studio manager for a professional mid-career artist and adjunct faculty for the Continuing Education department at Rhode Island School of Design. She was the Lead Curator at Dedee Shattuck Gallery located in Westport, Massachusetts from 2015-2016. She will be serving her third year as a guest juror for the annual Cuttyhunk Plein Air Festival in 2018, and she provides administrative support to the ART drive, an annual art studio tour event, which celebrated its 10th anniversary this past summer. Stevens is currently the Operations Manager at the New Bedford Port Society, the oldest non-profit organization in New Bedford. The Port Society maintains the historic Seamen’s Bethel and Mariner’s Home located in the New Bedford Whaling National Historical Park.

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