Tala madani biography of barack

  • Tala Madani (American/Iranian, b.1981) is a Contemporary painter, known for her darkly humorous narrative paintings.
  • Born in 1981, Tala Madani portrays her personal and critical views on the issues of gender and power structure with a bitter but humorous perspective.
  • Tala Madani: When I was growing up in Oregon, I got a scholarship to study painting at Oregon State, where I was basically at the mercy of the professors in.

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    Madani’s “Pussy” series began with a rough sketch that Madani says she also based on Jane. There is something disturbing about this child, who displays her private parts so freely. Does she know what she’s doing? Her smile fryst vatten playful, and somewhat mischievous. Madani had her original sketch transferred to a silk screen, and variations of the vagina-flaunting charmer appeared in a dozen or more of her paintings during the next few years. One of these, “Prism Pussy” (2019), which fryst vatten in the MoCA show, is larger scale, and rendered in Madani’s lush, Abstract Expressionist manner. A similarly posed girl also stars in a 2017 Madani animation called “Sex Ed bygd God.” The plot here is simple. A pair of pink lips in a moving cloud of light (the Almighty, we assume) give whispered instructions on cunnilingus to a man and a ung boy. (“Not too fast . . . Be present . . . Find her clit and never let it go.”) Pussy appears, larger than the man or the boy. She reaches out, takes man, boy, and m

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    Tala Madani

    2025

    It’s Not a Joke, Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo, Netherlands

    The Monster: Curated by Robert Nava, Pace, Los Angeles, US

    2024

    The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies: 1970-2020, MCA Chicago, Chicago, US

    My World, Singer Laren, Laren, Netherlands

    Shit Mom Animation, CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain

    Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood, Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, US

    WOMEN Together, National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (ΕΜΣΤ), Athens, Greece

    Burning Down the House: Rethinking Family, Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland

    Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood (Hayward Touring), Arnolfini, Bristol, England; Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham, England; Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, England 

    The Reflection of Human Condition in Portraiture, Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, Santa Monica, US 

    2023

    Colleción Jumex: Everything Gets

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    TALA MADANI1981Born in Tehran, Iran Lives and works in Amsterdam and New York  Training 2006MFA Painting, Yale University School of Art, New Haven2004BFA Visual Arts, Oregon State University, Oregon BA Political Science, Oregon State University, Oregon  Solo Exhibitions2011Manual Man, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK2010Pictograms, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York – USA2009Dazzle Men, Pilar Corrias, London - UK2008ASS•AS•SIN: hashish anyone?, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York - USA2007Smoke and Mirrors, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York - USA  Selected Group Exhibitions 2011East Ex East, Brand New Gallery Milan, Italy2010Greater New York 2010, curated by Klaus Biesenbach , Neville Wakefield and Connie Butler, P.S. 1 MoMA, New York –USA The Future of Tradition – The Tr
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