AZADEH ELMIZADEH
WORKS
CV
Azadeh Elmizadeh works between painting and collage, exploring the generative potential of indeterminacies that emphasize states-of-becoming while resisting the instinct to arrive at a perfect state of being. She is interested in the consequences of cross-cultural encounters and how it leads to works of art that suspend cultural boundaries by occupying a space in-between. Her work draws on references from Persian miniature painting such as ascending flame-shaped apparitions, centrifugal movement of dancing Dervishes, vignettes, doors and openings as metaphors for liminality and transitional states of being. In her paintings, she utilizes a slow technique of layering translucent glazes of oil paint to create a condition of anticipation and temporal movement essential for capturing the dynamic process of becoming. Accumulation of these layers is similar to a form of collage or assemblage of discontinuous intervals of here and there, now and then represented simultaneously.
WORKS
CV
Azadeh Elmizadeh works between painting and collage, exploring the generative potential of indeterminacies that emphasize states-of-becoming while resisting the instinct to arrive at a perfect state of being. She is interested in the consequences of cross-cultural encounters and how it leads to works of art that suspend cultural boundaries by occupying a space in-between. Her work draws on references from Persian miniature painting such as ascending flame-shaped apparitions, centrifugal movement of dancing Dervishes, vignettes, doors and openings as metaphors for liminality and transitional states of being. In her paintings, she utilizes a slow technique of layering translucent glazes of oil paint to create a condition of anticipation and temporal movement essential for capturing the dynamic process of becoming. Accumulation of these layers is similar to a form of collage or assemblage of discontinuous intervals of here and there, now and then represented simultaneously.
A figure with a fish, 2020
Oil on linen
9 x 12 inches
$900
Tulips of the Red, 2019
oil on canvas
28 x 32 inches
$2400
Azadeh Elmizadeh
b. Tehran, Iran
Lives and works in Toronto, Canada
Education
2020 MFA,University of Guelph, Canada
2016 BFA, Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, Toronto, Canada
2010 BFA, Visual Communication and Graphic Design, University of Tehran, Iran
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Subtle Bodies, Franz Kaka, Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2019 Preface, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2019 Cognizance, Birch Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2018 New Energy, Boarding House Gallery, Guelph, Canada
2017 Faraway, So Close, 26 Art Space, Toronto, Canada
2017 Why the &%#! Do You Paint? All the Colour, Gladstone HotelL, Toronto, Canada
2016 Why the &%#! Do You Paint? Go Figure, Gladstone HotelL, Toronto, Canada
2016 Walnut Studios, Walnut Contemporary, Toronto Canada
2016 Experiencing Perspectives, Mereds Benz, Mississauga, Canada
2016 OCADU 101TH GradeEx, Toronto, Canada
2016 Awenda Inspired, OCADU Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2016 Festival of the Body, OCADU, Toronto, Canada
2016 The Big Draw, OCADU, Toronto, Canada
2015 Experiencing Perspectives, Mereds Benz, Mississauga, Canada
2015 Eat the Menu, Symington House, Toronto, Canada
2014 Figure Show, OCADU, Toronto, Canada
2013 Impromptu, Gallerywest, Toronto, Canada
2010 BFA Final, University of Tehran, Iran
Fairs
2019 Papier, presented by Franz Kaka, Montreal, QC
2017 Art Toronto, OCADU booth, Toronto, Canada
Press
2020 ‘Azadeh Elmizadeh’ Canadian Art, Winter 2020
2020 ‘Azadeh Elmizadeh’s Subtle Bodies’ The Editorial Magazine, November 18, 2020
2020 ‘Azadeh Elmizadeh at Franz Kaka’ Contemporary Art Daily, November 16, 2020
2020 ‘Azadeh Elmizadeh at Franz Kaka’ émergent magazine, November 16, 2020
2020 ‘Azadeh Elmizadeh at Franz Kaka’ Art Viewer, November 2, 2020
2020 ‘Seven art galleries to visit across Ontario’ The Globe and Mail, October 24, 2020
Awards
2020 Joseph Plaskett Award for Painting, the Plaskett Foundation
2019 Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
2019 Travel, Research and Creation Grant, University of Guelph
2019 Shuebrook Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
2018 Tony Scherman Graduate Scholarship, University of Guelph
2018 University Graduate Scholarhsip, University of Guelph