Tala Madani
Tala Madani (born 1981 in Tehran) is an artist based in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a painter whose recurrent motifs include men, often made vulnerable, which gives the effect of reversing the conventionally objectified female body in painting.[1] Her painting style is loose, incorporating gestural brushstrokes into figurative narrative scenes that often have a bizarre, fetishistic quality to them.[2] The men in her paintings often appear to be ridiculed, clownish, dominated by perfumated space, Brechtian. The loose brushstrokes and flat pictorial space give an almost cartoon quality to her paintings.[3]
She is represented by Pilar Corrias Gallery in London.[4]
Education
In 2004, Madani graduated from Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon with a bachelor's degree in political science and visual arts. In 2006, she graduated from Yale University School of Art in New Haven, Connecticut with an MFA in painting.[citation needed]
Awards
2012
De Volkskrant Beeldende Kunst Prijs (De Volkskrant Art Award)
2008
Van den Berch van Heemstede Stichting, The Netherlands
2007
Kees Verwey Fellowship
2005
Schickle-Collingwood Prize, Yale University
2003
Oregon State University President’s Award for Excellence in Art
Selected solo exhibitions
2013
Tala Madani: Rip Image, Moderna Museet Malmo, Sweden
2011
Tala Madani: The Jinn, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Manual Man, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London, UK
2010
Pictograms, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA
2009
Dazzle Men, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2008
ASS•AS•SIN: hashish anyone?, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA
2007
Smoke and Mirrors, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York, USA
References
- ^ Al-Hadid, Diana http://bombsite.com/issues/109/articles/3336 ‘Tala Madani’ “BOMB Magazine” Fall 2009, retrieved July 21, 2011
- ^ Andrew Maerkle, Art Asia Pacific, from Lombard-Freid.com
- ^ Al-Hadid, D. http://bombsite.com/issues/109/articles/3336 ‘Tala Madani’ “BOMB Magazine” Fall 2009
- ^ Pilar Corrias, London
External links
- Tala Madani at Pilar Corrias, London
- Tala Madani in the collection of the Tate, London
- Interview by Kevin McGarry in the New York Times, 2010
- Review by Merrily Kerr in Flash Art, 2010
- Review by Laura McLean-Ferris in Art Review, 2009
- Article by Diana Al-Hadid in Bomb Magazine, 2009
- Review by Kathrine Holmgreen in Frieze Magazine, 2009
- Tala Madani In Conversation With Doug Mcclemont in Saatchi Magazine, 2008
- Review by Andrew Maerkle in Art Asia Pacific, 2007
- Review by Robert C. Morgan Brooklyn Rail, 2007
- I really laugh when I paint. An interview with Tala Madani Video by Louisiana Channel, 2013
Oregon State University alumni
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