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The Fall

Negar Ahkami
  • $85.00

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In The Fall, a distant skyline evocative of Iran's ornate mosques melts at the horizon. An exodus of sad figures spirals away from a jewel-like landscape, that up-close, reveals repression. A Persian idiomatic expression is scrawled within the landscape: From a distance it is beautiful, but up close, it wrenches the soul. The glittery bubble of immigrant nostalgia for homeland is burst.

At the foreground of the painting, an immigrant couple sits proudly on their baggage. They observe citizens of their new country flippantly interacting with objects that remind them of Iran. The new-world citizens treat a Persian carpet like a picnic blanket, sipping full glasses of Shiraz --a red wine named after an Iranian city. They read magazines that headline Iranian terror, and Herodotus --an ancient history that depicts Persia as an enemy and loser. The fallen leaves from the tree framing the landscape are blue and white, like the diasporic figures --hinting at collective loss.

The textures and colors in my work pay tribute to Iran's ceramic traditions and jewel-like aesthetic. The composition is inspired by Persian miniatures and the symbolic landscapes of Hudson River School paintings. The original painting is in the Collection of Roya and Massoud Heidari.

+ Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
+ Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper unless noted
+ Signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
+ Directly supports the artist
+ Handcrafted custom-framing is available

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing.

Innova Fibraprint Warm Cotton Gloss

Edition Structure:
14"x11" | edition of 500
20"x16" | edition of 50
30"x24" | edition of 10

Artist - Negar Ahkami

Negar Ahkami

Negar Ahkami is a mixed media artist and painter who was born in Baltimore and raised in the New York area. Ahkami received a B.A. from Columbia University and an MFA from School of Visual Arts. She has had solo exhibitions in New York at Leila Heller Gallery and LMAK Projects, and in the DC area at Marymount University's Cody Gallery and Arlington Arts Center. Her work has featured in group exhibitions at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Walters Art Museum, the North Carolina Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, the Queens Museum of Art, and other venues. Ahkami’s work is represented in the collections of The New Britain Museum of American Art, the DePaul University Art Museum, the Farjam Collection (UAE), and private and corporate collections, national and international. She currently lives in the DC area, where she is participating in a Longterm Artist Residency at Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, VA.  

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