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① Artwork:
Untitled (21.033)
In this artwork, deeply saturated gouache backgrounds are offset by gleaming, hand-embroidered, hard-edged shapes. Using vintage Japanese 18- and 24-karat gold-wrapped thread, Aminlari stitches forms based on his recollections of animals, patterns, and other motifs in the Persian rugs of his childhood. By emphasizing the subjective aspects of personal memory, Aminilari’s “in-between shapes” suggest multiple interpretations outside any specific culture or context.
Abdolreza Aminlari utilizes an array of material techniques in his approach to geometric abstraction. Angular motifs populate his works, which get imbued with references to traditional textiles or patterns and re-envisioned through a lens of modernist abstraction. Via vintage gold thread, paint, handmade paper, and clay, Aminlari explores ideas surrounding the transnational diffusion of domestic and factory labor and cultural production.
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③ Artist:
Abdolreza Aminlari utilizes an array of material techniques in his approach to geometric abstraction. Angular motifs populate his works, which get imbued with references to traditional textiles and patterns and re-envisioned through a lens of modernist abstraction, forming a specific yet open-ended visual language. By incorporating vintage gold thread, paint, handmade paper, and clay, Aminlari’s practice explores ideas surrounding the transnational diffusion of domestic and factory labor while considering cultural production through the vantage point of lived experience.
Abdolreza Aminlari was born in 1979 in Iran and lives in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, MI (2002).
Aminlari has mounted solo exhibitions at Situations Gallery in New York City, NY (2023), Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago, IL (2022), O Gallery in Tehran, Iran (2021), and Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York City, NY (2016).
He has been featured in group exhibitions at Van Doren Waxter in New York City, NY (2023), the Hunterdon Art Museum in Clinton, NJ (2022-3), Tyler Park Presents in Los Angeles, CA (2022), Golestani Gallery in Düsseldorf, Germany (2021), and the Abrons Art Center in New York City, NY) among others.
Aminlari's work has also been reviewed in The Wall Street Journal, ARTnews, BBC Persian, and Art Asia Pacific.
In this artwork, deeply saturated gouache backgrounds are offset by gleaming, hand-embroidered, hard-edged shapes. Using vintage Japanese 18- and 24-karat gold-wrapped thread, Aminlari stitches forms based on his recollections of animals, patterns, and other motifs in the Persian rugs of his childhood. By emphasizing the subjective aspects of personal memory, Aminilari’s “in-between shapes” suggest multiple interpretations outside any specific culture or context.More
- Framed: 28.8 x 42.5 x 1.5 in.
