Art for All | Paper Pulp Painting Workshop with Aryana Minai

Paper Pulp Painting Workshop led by Aryana Minai

Discover the art of handmade paper drawing using custom stencils and dyed pulp. Participants will be guided in creating their own custom stencils or can choose from a selection of pre-made stencils provided during the workshop. The session will kick off with a brief overview of making a sheet of handmade paper from recycled materials, followed by an opportunity to experiment with stencils and apply dyed pulp to create unique drawings.

Art supplies are provided. No previous art-making experience necessary.

About Aryana Minai

Aryana Minai, an Iranian-American artist based in Los Angeles, draws upon the personal experience of living between two distinct cultures in order to explore broader issues surrounding histories of architecture, migration, labor, and the body. Referring formally to both the walled gardens of Iran and the pick-up truck beds of Los Angeles day laborers, Minai’s large-scale works on paper call into question the presumed permanence of architecture, the world-building potential of nostalgia, the inclination to find remnants of the familiar often under unexpected conditions. The process of creating pulped paper from found materials becomes analogical to the process of remembering and reconsidering through personal memory, a transformation of one form into another. Traces of the artist’s hand appear alongside imprints of bricks and stones culled from demolished buildings, vintage woodblocks used in textile design, wallpaper stencils, vestiges of places and aesthetic vernaculars that no longer exist, objects that can only be accessed partially, through memory. As contemporary art increasingly concerns itself with the global, Minai’s works transcend abstract concepts like “cultural hybridity” to suggest how social forces and historical circumstances actually manifest in both memory and material form.

Aryana Minai (b. 1994 in Tehran, US) received a BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2016, an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2020, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, US. Selected solo exhibitions include: “Unveiling the Ground,” Tara Downs, New York, US (2024); “Soft Waters Heard Here,” Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, US (2023); “Roses in a Garden of a Ruined House,” James Fuentes, New York, US (2023); “Does it Have a Heart, Does it Sing, Does it Sting?,” Ochi Projects, Los Angeles, US (2022);. Her group exhibitions include: “When The Veil Thins”, Compound, Long Beach, US, “Tracing The Edge,” Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, US (2023)“Incognito,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US (2022); “Many,” Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, US (2022); “Generations: Abstract Los Angeles: Four Generations,” Brand Library, Glendale, US (2022). Minai was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize in 2023, and has held residencies at The Macedonia Institute, Chatham, New York, US; The Print Shop LA, Los Angeles, US; and Maple St. Construct, Omaha, US.

Artwork featured:

Darvaze Noor I / Gateway of Light I, 2023

Dyed handmade paper mounted on aluminum

81 x 47 inches

Compound’s Art For All is a series of hands-on workshops that teach various artistic mediums and encourages a new way of making art that’s fun and engaging for the whole family. You will be able to learn drawing, collage, painting, performance, sculpture, ceramics, music-making, and much more.

Workshops are free and open to all thanks to this year’s sponsor, The Port of Long Beach, and a donation by The Rudolph J. and Daphne A. Munzer Foundation.

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