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Niloofar Gholamrezaei

Niloofar Gholamrezaei

Unknown, 21st c. 

Acrylic on Wood, 22 x 25 inches

Unframed

About

Niloofar Gholamrezaei is a visual artist, educator, and scholar born in Tehran, Iran. 

​Prof. Gholamrezaei earned a BA in painting from the Tehran University of Art and her MFA from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. She recently defended her doctoral dissertation—on the relationship between realism and global modernism—in the program of Fine Arts at Texas Tech University.

 

Her artistic and research practice engages issues such as perception and representation in modern and contemporary art from a cross-cultural perspective.​

Her works reflects metaphoric figurative paintings.

Niloofar Gholamrezaei

Twilight is a metaphor for a condition of ambiguity, doubt, paradox, and the state of existing between two opposites. A twilight zone is a state of time that is neither day nor night, dark or light. This metaphor in her works mostly relates to ethics and human ethical experience of situations that are in between the opposites of good and evil or a condition in which the opposites co-exist.

 

Her past series was particularly a response to the political ideologies in post-revolutionary Iran, which project a sharp binary between right and wrong and directly challenge the self-perception of absolute “right” on the part of the current Iranian power structure. In this series of her works, there is often a figure, mostly a musician, that appears in the twilight landscape. The musician is a metaphor for a heroic act of contemplation, resisting, and hope within the paradoxical, ambiguous condition of a twilight zone.

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