Negar Ahkami "Pride and Fall"
Leila Heller Gallery
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The immigrant home rests precariously in that space in between memories of a mythical past and the chimeric dreams of possible futures. Raised by immigrant Iranian parents in America, the artist Negar Ahkami's sensibilities have been colored by this vivid, cacophonous space in between. Her artistic response is at once embracing and angry, celebratory and sardonically derisive, humorous and touchingly painful. Perhaps she has painted herself as that small, beleaguered woman on Bridge to Nowhere that links a melting Arabesque landscape across the road from a ghostlike reflective structure that stands in for the fallen WorldTradeCenter.
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from March 04, 2009 to March 28, 2009