Tala Madani
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Tala Madani is an artist based in New Haven, Connecticut
, USA. She is a painter whose recurrent motifs include men, often made vulnerable, which gives the effect of reversing the conventionally objectified female body in painting. Her painting style is loose, incorporating gestural brushstrokes into figurative narrative scenes that often have a bizarre, fetishistic quality to them.The men in her paintings often appear to be ridiculed, and clownish, and the loose brushstrokes and flat pictorial space give an almost cartoon quality to her paintings.
Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University
Studio 580, Group Show, Bend
2005
Green Gallery, Yale University
2007
Smoke and Mirrors, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Size Matters: XS- Recent Small Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
New York City Representation, Lombard Freid Projects
New Haven, Connecticut
New Haven is the second-largest city in Connecticut and the sixth-largest in New England. According to the 2010 Census, New Haven's population increased by 5.0% between 2000 and 2010, a rate higher than that of the State of Connecticut, and higher than that of the state's five largest cities, and...
, USA. She is a painter whose recurrent motifs include men, often made vulnerable, which gives the effect of reversing the conventionally objectified female body in painting. Her painting style is loose, incorporating gestural brushstrokes into figurative narrative scenes that often have a bizarre, fetishistic quality to them.The men in her paintings often appear to be ridiculed, and clownish, and the loose brushstrokes and flat pictorial space give an almost cartoon quality to her paintings.
Selected exhibitions
2003Fairbanks Gallery, Oregon State University
Oregon State University
Oregon State University is a coeducational, public research university located in Corvallis, Oregon, United States. The university offers undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees and a multitude of research opportunities. There are more than 200 academic degree programs offered through the...
Studio 580, Group Show, Bend
2005
Green Gallery, Yale University
Yale University
Yale University is a private, Ivy League university located in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States...
2007
Smoke and Mirrors, Lombard-Freid Projects, New York
Size Matters: XS- Recent Small Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art
External links
- Robert C. MorganRobert C. MorganRobert C. Morgan is an American art critic, art historian, curator, poet, and visual artist.-Background:Robert C. Morgan received his M.F.A. in Sculpture from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in 1975 and his Ph.D. in contemporary art history from New York University in 1978...
, Smoke and Mirrors, BrooklynRail.org - Tala Madani on ArtNet.com
- Images, texts and biography from the Saatchi Gallery
- Tala Madani on ArtFacts.net
- Tala Madani at Pilar Corrias, London
New York City Representation, Lombard Freid Projects