Shirazeh Houshiary
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Shirazeh Houshiary buries every point of departure that might define an origin. "I set out to capture my breath," she says, to "find the essence of my own existence, transcending name, nationality, cultures." (Shirazeh Houshiary, 2000) Born in Shiraz, Iran, Houshiary enrolled at the Chelsea School of Art in 1976 and has lived in London ever since. Houshiary's paintings are elusive, barely visible, and they change in our vision over time - they refuse to be frozen into a finite moment, of the kind that could be captured by a camera. They intentionally stand at the very edge of perception, the signs both emerging from nothingness and simultaneously melting back into it. Yet these paintings painstakingly record a process of obstinate mark making, of personal gestures inscribing time, of checking the pressure of one's presence, the precision of one's vision, against the resistant surface. (Fereshteh Daftari, "Beyond Islamic roots - beyond Modernism", Res 43, Spring 2003: Islamic Arts.)
Shirazeh Houshiary lives and works in London, UK
www.shirazehhoushiary.com
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Artist Press
Shirazeh HoushiaryFereshteh Daftari, "Beyond Islamic Roots – Beyond Modernism", Res 43, Spring 2003. Copyright by the President and Fellows of Harvard College. Reprinted by Permission of the Peabody Museum Press, Harvard University.
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Artist Exhibitions
Shirazeh Houshiary May 29 - July 26, 2008View Exhibition
Shirazeh Houshiary November 10 - December 18, 2004
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Shirazeh Houshiary September 16 - October 15, 1994
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Shirazeh Houshiary May 8 - June 20, 1992
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Shirazeh Houshiary September 28 - October 31, 1987
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20th Anniversary Exhibition July 23 - September 19, 1987
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Shirazeh Houshiary October 11 - November 3, 1984
Artist Images
Bloom, 2006 Aluminium and steel 608.5 x 99.3 x 99.3 cm Photo: Hirofumi Tani
Untitled, 2008 Red and Blue pencil on White aquacryl on canvas 40 x 40 cm
Flicker, 2008 Blue and white pencil on black aquacryl on canvas 70 x 70 cm
Coalesce, 2008 Blue pencil on white aquacryl on canvas 70 x 70 cm
Quiver, 2008 Blue pencil on black aquacryl on canvas 70 x 70 cm
Vein, 2006 Blue and red pencil on white aquacryl, white gesso on canvas 190 x 190 cm
Loom, 2008 Anodized aluminum bricks and steel cable Height 275 cm; ellipse 43 cm x 32 cm
Shirazeh Houshiary and Pip Horne Commission for St Martin-in-the- Fields, London, 2008 Etched mouth blown clear glass and shot peened stainless steel frame