LOT 39 - Shohreh Edalat

Independent

Title: Untitled

Dimensions: 14" x 11"

Medium: Oil on canvas

Date: 2022

She was born in Tehran, Iran. She is a member of the Iranian visual art association from 2009. She has experienced one revolution, an eight-year war between her country and Iraq. These two big occurrences affected on her life strongly, especially as a female in Iran. She works in the style of Realism. The females attend in her paintings and they are an important subject in her works. Common themes in her work represent fears surrounding the female’s issues. In her paintings, drawings and printmakings, she aims to reflect on a journey of self-discovery and represent all the different sides of herself as any female. She is inspired by philosophical and psychological texts. She has had a professional painting practice for 20 years. She portrays the thoughts with honesty and sincerity through The way of drawing by different characteristic lines with various tools such as brushes, oil pastel, and charcoals help me create personal, emotional paintings that convey feelings such as happiness, anger and excitement. As an artist, she has many successful solo exhibitions experience of showing and selling her painting in Iran. (5 works of her paintings have resided in different private collections which one of them is France embassy in Iran) and more than 20 group exhibitions in Iran and Canada. The last one was due to covid 19 at Artscape 2019. Moreover, she has 7 years’ experience as a manager of Elahe Gallery which is a creditable and well-known art gallery in Iran.