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Email PageI wanted to change the world but all I changed was myself
February 23, 2006- April 1, 2006
Reception: February 23, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Amir H. Fallah
M.Y. Art Prospects
547 W 27th StM.Y. ART PROSPECTS is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition of Amir H. Fallah, opening Thursday, February 23 and continuing Saturday, April 1. The L.A.-based artist just received his MFA from UCLA last May, and this January, L.A. Weekly named him one of the top ten emerging artists in the region.
Entitled "I Wanted to Change the World but All I Changed was Myself," Fallah’s latest works are acrylics on canvas that create dark quasi-architectural spaces within which bright colorful fragments swarm and scatter as if in the aftermath of an explosion or in the process of transformation. The ambiguity and transience of the ‘mess’ create an eerie contrast to the surrounding walls that appear untouched, clean and silent.
His teen-age affinity with graffiti is still evident in his new body of work, but Fallah tactfully conjures various elements of high and low art, nourishing his vocabulary of flat, graphic passages with painterly expressionistic swatches. According to his recent artist statement, Fallah is interested in exploring and bridging the gap between design and art, art history and pop culture, and adolescence and adulthood.
Persian by birth, Fallah is heir to his native culture’s artistic traditions. His decorative elements are both continuous and discrete, coexisting in a complex universe. The vibrant organism achieved in his detailed patterning of abstract shapes is juxtaposed with the static space enclosing it. The borders of the surrounding fields (the floor and the walls) further accentuate his composition.
Born in Tehran, Iran in 1979, Amir H. Fallah holds an MFA in Painting from UCLA, Los Angeles, as well as a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute of College of Art in Baltimore. He has been included in group exhibitions and art fairs in Los Angeles and New York since 2000, and in 2005 he made a solo exhibition debut at Third Line Gallery in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Fallah is a founder of and has been a creative director for Beautiful Decay, L. A.-based quarterly pop culture & art magazine since 2002.
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