Female Contemporary Artist Highlight: Roghayeh Najdi "Evanescence of Time"

Female Contemporary Artist Highlight: Roghayeh Najdi "Evanescence of Time"

Happy International Women's Month!
Throughout the Month of March we will be highlighting various Contemporary Female Artists of whose work we admire, and obtain here at APR57!  We will be discussing their lives, and works. 
Overview of Women’s History Month
 
Women’s History Month had its origins as a national celebration in 1981 when Congress passed Pub. L. 97-28 which authorized and requested the President to proclaim the week beginning March 7, 1982 as “Women’s History Week.” Throughout the next five years, Congress continued to pass joint resolutions designating a week in March as “Women’s History Week.” In 1987 after being petitioned by the National Women’s History Project, Congress passed Pub. L. 100-9 which designated the month of March 1987 as “Women’s History Month.” Between 1988 and 1994, Congress passed additional resolutions requesting and authorizing the President to proclaim March of each year as Women’s History Month. Since 1995, presidents have issued a series of annual proclamations designating the month of March as “Women’s History Month.” These proclamations celebrate the contributions women have made to the United States and recognize the specific achievements women have made over the course of American history in a variety of fields.
 
Artist Overview 
For a whole generation of Iranians, childhood was a passage between bewilderment and awakening. The experience of living through years of revolution and the imposed war, exposed them to images, emotions and vocabulary that was not supposed to be part of their childhood. The fears and conflicts of those years has had its profound effect on everyday decisions and desires. At the same time the insecurity that a nation has felt for many years has evoked fundamental human craving for life, for color, patterns, and flight of fancy.
In her first solo exhibition Roghayeh Najdi pictures a past that is shared by millions of other children. By painting Negative images of people, with a backdrop of unrest and inherent violence, she speaks out against imposed war and violence and the ever-increasing threats of war and hostility in her home country as well as in the region.
The illusionary quality of what she remembers is a tangible shroud that covers the paintings. In these layers of reality, dream, and illusions a unique formation takes shape. Vivid colors are in contrast with the grey years of life in Iran and the astounding beauty of the wildflowers are a reminder that ultimately nature can’t be restrained, and eventually human spirit is capable of overcoming a great number of obstacles. 
The Versus of Oblivion is a collection of wondrous imagery by a young female Iranian artist who is trying to recall all of the past, and today she is determined to live her life to its fullest, despite the past; defiant stand of an artist who is committed to renounce darkness and ultimately to defeat spite.
"In the cycle of human life and with the passage of time, the purification of events causes countless states, reactions, transformations and even immersion in other dimensions. Events lingering in the back of our mind -both tangible and intangible- affect the course of our lives; and over time, become detached from their original nature, taking on a different meaning.
In continuation of my previous series and by addressing the common concerns of my generation, in these recent works, I have chosen the events of my backgrounds so that to create a vague sense of reality through calling for various psychological responses in the viewer.
In my works, the purification of events has merged with the present: sometimes like a mist in space and sometimes like a dream in the background, and through this transformation, the purification prepares itself for a new cycle."  - Roghayeh Najdi
     
 
Title: “Evanescence of Time”  
Medium: Oil Paint of Canvas
Subject Matter: Symbolism of Iranian Life
Type: Painting  
Framed Size: (h w d): 59”x 47” x 1.75 in
     
Appraisal Value: $20,000
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