Fooladi, Farima Safaitakhteh (b. 1982)
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(b. 1982)
Houston, TX
Farima Fooladi was born in Tehran, Iran in a transition period from Monarchy to the Islamic Republic, and theocracy. She is living in the United States creating paintings in her Studio at the Box13 ArtSpace in Houston, Texas. She teaches studio art courses at the Sam Houston State University. Fooladi completed her MFA in Painting and Drawing at the Penn State University where she taught Drawing and painting for three years before moving to Houston, TX. She is fascinated by the lasting impact of collective trauma caused by Invasion, Migration, and displacement. She mentions that her paintings are her circumstance. In her current studio practice she is addressing displacement, delved into different historical and emotional layers of public spaces and memory. The transformation of civic spaces caused by social and political changes is of particular interest to her. Fooladi’s 8th solo show will open on January 2022 at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NYC with one-year delay caused by the current pandemic.
http://www.farimafooladi.com/