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Combining elements of traditional Eastern and Western art forms, Taravat Talepasand explores conflicting Iranian and American mores. While maintaining classical styles, she updates the imagery by depicting modern characters. Talepasand’s narrative works, frequently featuring multiple self-portaits, come to terms with Iranian identity in an American context. Talepasand has had solo exhibitions at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and Marx & Zavaterro, San Francisco; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles; and Plane Space, New York. Group exhibitions include the 2010 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Bad Moon Rising 4, galerie sans titre, Brussels, Belgium; Sexy Time, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York; and I Want You To Want Me, Marx & Zavattero. She’s a featured artist in the comprehensive book Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art, edited by Hossein Amirsadeghi, and in the Pearls on the Ocean Floor, Robert Adanto’s documentary on women artists of the Iranian diaspora. Talepasand received her MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2006.
Pearls on the Ocean Floor screens as part of SFAI’s Graduate Lecture Series on Friday, October 8, at 4 p.m.
