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| Pooneh Maghazehe |
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Born: 2/27/79
Birthplace: Brooklyn, NY
If I had three wishes I would be a breakdancer, Cher would be my homey, and the year would be 1992.
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| About the Artist |
Prior to 2003, I introduced myself to world as Lisa. Lisa was catholic, taught Sunday school during latter adolescence and was absorbed by Puerto Rican and hip-hop culture.
She represented a pseudonym for self-preservation, an attempt in gaining tolerance in an intolerant, blue-collar, suburban neighborhood in Pennsylvania.
In fact, I am the first generation of a Shiite Muslim family of Iranian descent to be born and raised in Philadelphia. Naturally, the delicate balance between bi-culturalism and assimilation felt unequivocal. In frequent travels to Iran, I was intrigued by the way theocratic symbolism functioned when implemented in the public sphere. These reactions have formalized primarily as decorated Amish dresses and hot-iron brandings that stand as signs and symbols, allowing for an exploration in performance based work. At its core, my work investigates the tendency for the human psyche to subscribe to specific categorizations, or subcultures, in response to feelings of ambivalence, uncertainty and/or anxiety.
Using the Amish dress as both a starting point and analogy for the veil in Iran, a combination of cultural iconographies exemplify a narcissistic pledge of allegiance to subcultures that I have espoused. Resurrecting the sense of loyalty and allegiance that drew me to each community, I revive the puritan flag, sanctify a kinship with hip hop culture, collide with centuries old Islamic pattern, revere the commitment to Catholicism, and revisit an adolescent familiarity with brotherhood found in motorcycle and car clubs. These works are a historical account of my past. As a subcomponent to this concept, I have adopted a fractal Islamic pattern commonly found in architectural detailing, used both in old and new construction in Iran. Over the past eight months throughout New York City, I have been offering free, voluntary brandings of patrons’ personal items. Utilizing a propane torch and a custom made branding iron inscribed with this specific pattern, an act of re-contextualization implies the historic representation of cattle branding, a metaphor for migration, reference to mass-marketing and the function of branding identities or logos. Moreover, the possibility is created for a re-invention, producing either a strengthening or erasure of the symbol’s significance. Overall, the experience in wearing the garments, posing as the subject of a photograph in them, and repetitively branding my immediate environment in street based work informs the dialogue between Lisa and Pooneh, uniquely positioning me both inside and outside myself.
I intend to use myself as a case study in analyzing cultural assimilation, and the psychosocial constructs on which it is enshrined. Lisa is exhumed, her ostentatious obsessions learned, stripped and recorded, exposing her ulterior conflicts. Establishing a cyclic exercise in estrangement and subsequent re-engagement between an alter ego and my current self, I explore the concept of theatricality or the comparison between representation of a character and perception. Developing density of signs and sensation in which events and role-playing in social life are laminated, I seize the isolation, deprivation and eventual glorification of an overtly dramatized persona.
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Out of Bounds
2007 Mixed Media 122cm x 122cm |
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Islamic Mosaic Pattern. 2,500 dyed regular absorbancy OB tampons. Encased in Plexiglass. |
Out of Bounds-Detail
2007 Mixed Media 122cm x 122cm |
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Frontal View |
The Boot
2008 Mixed Media |
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Hot Iron Branded Cowboy Boot. Symbol is Islamic Mosaic Pattern. |
Untitled
2008 Food. |
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Hot Iron Branding of Corn Tortilla. |
Street Branding 08'
2008 Me, the Hot Iron and a Propane Torch |
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Onsite Street Branding-NYC |
Puritan Pride
2008 Textile |
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Mennonite Dress. Embroidered, Altered. |
Puritan Pride
2008 Textile |
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Mennonite Dress. Embroidered, Altered. |
Puritan Pride-Detail
2008 Textile |
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Mennonite Dress. Embroidered, Altered. |
La Cosa Nostra
2008 Textile |
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Mennonite Dress. Embroidered, Altered. |
La Cosa Nostra-Detail
2008 Textile |
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Mennonite Dress. Embroidered, Altered |
Street Branding 08'
2008 Branding Iron, Personal Items |
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Product of Free Street Brandings. Happy Customers. |
Out of Bounds-Part II
2007 Mixed Media 122cm x 122cm |
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Canvas. OB Tampons. |
Out of Bounds-Part II
2007 Mixed Media 122cm x 122cm |
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Canvas. OB Tampons. 2nd Take on Out of Bounds. Alternative View |
BK Puritan Pride 1
2008 Photography |
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Photography of Performance. |
BK Puritan Pride 2
2007 Photography |
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Photography of Performance. |
BK Puritan Pride 3
2008 Photography |
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Photography of Performance. |
Hells Angel In Puerto Rico
2008 Photography |
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Still from performance. |
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| Education and biography |
Pooneh Maghazehe
b. Brooklyn, NY, 1979
Lives and works: Brooklyn, NY
Education
2005
MS, Interior Architecture, Pratt Institute, New York, NY
2001
BS, Biobehavioral Health, Penn State University, State College, PA
Residencies
2008
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
2007
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Selected Exhibitions
2009
Asian Contemporary Art Week, Chelsea Art Museum, New York NY “Primordial Ablution”
Kreft Center for the Arts, Ann Arbor, MI, “Reconciliation”
Arario Gallery, New York, NY, “Artist in Exile”
2008
Sego Arts Center, Provo, UT, “Virtual Realities Real Space”
TamarindART Gallery, New York, NY, “SAWCC Annual Silent Auction”
Brooklyn Artists Gym, Brooklyn, NY, “Shades of Green”
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, “Open Studios 2008”
Bowery Poetry Club, New York, NY, “Red Party NYC”
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, “Weaving the Common Thread”
2007 School Of Visual Arts, New York, NY, “Open Studios 2007”
2006 Makor Jewish Convention Center, New York, NY, “Persian Arts Festival 2006”
Pier IV, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Collective, Brooklyn, NY, “Transformations”
Pier IV, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Collective, Brooklyn, NY, “Experimentation”
2005 Manhattan Center, New York, NY, “Pratt Graduate Exhibition”
Bibliography
2008 SL Weekly, “Virtual Art Real Time: An International Artists’ Collective Brings It’s
Diverse Work to Provo”, November 2008, By Cara Despain
ArtBistro, “Virtual Identities Real Space”, November 2008 By Valerie Atkisson
Persian Broadcasting Company, “NY Life”, March 2008 (Via Satellite)
Selected Lectures
2008 Brigham Young University, November
Meridian Upper and Middle School, November
Awards/Affiliations
Best of Show, Kreft Center Gallery for the Arts, Ann Arbor MI, Juried by Rebecca Hart
Best of Show, Sego Arts Center, Virtual Realities Real Space, Provo UT, Juried by Jeff Lambson
Honorable Mention, Sego Arts Center, Virtual Realities Real Space, Provo UT, Juried by Jeff Lambson
Recipient of the Schreyer’s Honor Medal
Golden Key Honor Society
Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society
Persian Arts Festival, PAF, Inc.
Southeast Asian Women’s Creative Collective, SAWCC
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Collective, BWAC
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