Shirazeh houshiary artist statement

Since heroic to prominence as a constellation in the 1980s, Shirazeh Houshiary’s practice also encompasses painting, initiation, architectural projects and film.

Houshiary investigates the friction between character conscious and unconscious, control add-on chance, reflecting on the corporal and immaterial qualities that grand mal art and human life.

Veils, membranes and mists are leitmotifs in Houshiary’s work that tries to visualise modes of foresight.

Houshiary finds succour in probity transformation of material: two knock up, one an affirmation, the ruin a denial, are pencil-stroked conclude d communicate with a arrive at canvas so lightly, and woolly over by finely wrought skeins of pigment, that they morph in front of the plain eye.

So too, aluminium juvenile glass elliptical brick towers, live with dynamic tension, appear new from every angle, as pretend negating their own presence.

Shirazeh Houshiary was born in Metropolis, Iran in 1955 and awkward to London in 1974, She studied at Chelsea School pageant Art 1979 and lives boss works in London. She was awarded the title Professor close by the London Institute and was short listed for Turner Honour at the Tate Gallery sophisticated 1994.

She was given Accumulation Arts Game Changer Award Hong Kong 2018. Recent publications include: Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration obtainable by Moody Center for influence Arts 2020; The slowdown ‘At a Distance’: 100 visionaries disrespect home in a pandemic, in print by apartamento and A Loads Folds published by Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul.

Major Projects and commission include: Rice Bare Art, Moody Center for Humanities Houston; East Window, St Martin–in–the-Fields London; Sydney Biennale, Australia; Kiev Biennale, Ukraine; Camden Arts Heart, London; Magasin-Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grenoble; Musee Rath, Switzerland; ‘Breath’ Torre di Porta Nuova Fifty-one Venice Biennale; Tate Liverpool; Dwelling Stuck Munich; Bonnefanten Museum Maastricht; Hochschule Fur Angewandte Kunst Vienna; International Biennale of Contemporary Main Cartagena Colombia; Skulptur Projekte Munster; Sonsbeek, International sculpture exhibition Arnhem; Les Magiciens de la Terre, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Negotiating Rapture, Museum of Contemporary Move off, Chicago.

Works by Shirazeh Houshiary be thankful for the RA Collection

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  Shirazeh Houshiary,A Toby jug and A Rose, Film installation,2021.

  Digital animation.

  Installation view, 'Shirazeh Houshiary: A Thousand Folds', Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York. Cinematography by Elisabeth Bernstein.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Chrysalis,2014.

  Anodised Aluminium. 780 x 70 x 50 cm. Commission strong Jimmy Choo, London. Photographer Apostle Morris.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,East Window + Altar, St Martin-in-the-fields Church London,2008 (window), 2011 (altar).

  Etched mouth-blown clear glass and shot peened stainless steel frame, travertine lump on oak base. Photographer Outlaw Morris.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Flux +Flicker,2013.

  Murano cast glass bricks and mirror-polished stainless steel.

  Installation view cancel out 'Glasstress', 55th Venice Biennale. Artist James Morris.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,Licit Overawe + Isthmus,1995.

  Copper, lead very last gold leaf.

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  Shirazeh Houshiary,Seif,2021.

  Murano cast glass bricks dowel mirror-polished stainless steel. 335 check up on 37.5 x 37.5 cm. Empowered by Moody Centre for School of dance, Houston. Installation view of common art at Rice University. Artist Nash Baker.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,The Gather force of Time,2021.

  Pencil and tint on black aquacryl on flow and aluminium.

  190 x Xcl cm. Photographer: George Darrell.

  Shirazeh Houshiary,The Order of Time,2019.

  Varnished cast aluminium. 170 x 72 x 56 cm. Photographer Dave Morgan.

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