Artist Talk at the Innovation Studio: Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi

, Artist in Residence, and MoCA Arlington Senior Curator, Blair Murphy, will discuss Ilchi's practice and the work she's focused on during the 8-week residency at the Innovation Studio.

Ilchi's creative practice is a navigation of her multifaceted experiences as an immigrant. By combining conventions of Western abstraction with conventions of Persian art, Ilchi explores contradictory painting processes and the ways in which they can be melded into a hybrid visual language. These pictorial clashes echo the erasure and distortion of cultural identities, evoking allegories of intrusion and invasion and moving beyond the personal to reference contemporary and historical interference.

Talk will begin at 6:30pm.

Location:

MoCA Arlington Innovation Studio + Store: 525 14th Street S, Arlington, VA 22202
Free parking available in the garage after 4:30pm for up to 3 hours

To livestream the talk:
Tune in on Tuesday, June 2, at 6:30pm to either MoCA Arlington’s Facebook or YouTube page!

My own private night in the morning of the day

Hedieh Javanshir Ilchi / 2023

Acrylic and watercolor on Dibond

24 x 20 in.

About the Artist

Hedieh Javashir Ilchi is is an Iranian-American artist whose creative practice is a navigation of her multifaceted experiences as an immigrant. Ilchi’s paintings provide a space where her two disparate histories come together to reflect on cultural traditions and notions of belonging.

Born in Tehran, Iran and currently living and working in the Washington, DC metro area, Ilchi received an MFA in studio art from American University in 2011 and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art + Design in 2006. Her work is in numerous private and public collections including The Phillips Collection and The Federal Reserve Board. She is the recipient of the Belle Foundation for Cultural Development Individual Grant, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship, VisArts Studio Fellowship, Charm City Fellowship and Zeta Orionis Painting Fellowship amongst others. Her work has been featured in many publications includingThe Washington Post, Hyperallergic, Art Papers, Washington City Paper, and New American Paintings. Ilchi has attended residencies at the Ucross Foundation, Millay Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Jentel Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Playa Summer Lake, Monson Arts and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts.

belonging.www.hediehilchi.com | IG: @hediehi

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