January 24, 2025 - March 9, 2025
Opening Celebration: January 31, 2025 | 7 - 9 pm
Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi is an Iranian American artist whose creative practice is a navigation of her multifaceted experiences as an immigrant. Ilchi’s paintings provide a space where her two disparate histories come together to reflect on cultural traditions and notions of belonging...
For Ilchi, each painting is activated through unpredictability and chance as fluid layers of poured paint form a crucial foundation for space and image building. The layering of poured paint results in complex and unanticipated shapes, colors and surface textures that simultaneously embody conflicting dualities, such as delicacy and crudeness, depth and flatness, transparency and opacity, abstraction and representation, and beauty and repulsion. These pours are then interlaced with intricately painted patterns and imagery derived from personal and found sources, Persian painting and illuminated manuscripts, and 19th century European and American landscape paintings...
In these hybridized paintings, Ilchi examines how the confluence of the disparate metaphorical languages of abstraction, ornamentation and the Sublime can reflect the harmonies and tensions caused by the meeting of different cultures and traditions, on a personal, sociopolitical and environmental scale.
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VisArts
155 Gibbs Street
Rockville, MD 20850
VisArts’ six-month Gibbs Street Residency offers artists a unique opportunity to create new work, evolve existing work, or develop a project in a dynamic, supportive environment. Residents receive a stipend and free studio space and present a culminating solo exhibition.