Shirin Ettehadieh is to display her selected paintings in an exhibition at Niavaran Cultural Center, June 8- 17.
The exhibit includes 30 paintings created by the veteran artist over the past three years. On display will be works from two collections “Immigrants Who Carry the Memories of Their Land With Themselves” and the abstract collection “In Absence of the People,” ILNA reported on its Persian website.
The self-taught artist uses mixed media technique in her works and demonstrates a conceptual style with specific colors and motifs.
Ettehadieh’s artworks have an expressive tone that conveys a mixture of modernity and traditions of Iranian culture. Selected images from her portrait paintings have been published in a book by Mahriz Publication.
The 71-year-old artist is a graduate of art and design from Paris Ecole Du Louvre (1982) and London South Bank Polytechnic University (1973). Her paintings are regularly exhibited since 1984. Her artworks have usually focused on her explicit expression of emotions linked to cultural and traditional roots of her homeland.
She has worked for more than three decades and held solo and group exhibition in Iran and France.
She opened her painting studio and a book store in 1979 on Vesal-e Shirazi St., in central Tehran, and founded the Azad Art Gallery, also in Tehran, in 2014.
One of her expressive landscape paintings was recently put up for sale at the 8th Tehran Auction.
