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Crown Shy I, Irina Tehrani, The Word for World

The Word for World

Painting my way through Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Word For World Is Forest, layering her wisdom onto the heavy realities of our own world and the current condition of humans’ relationship with natural systems and with each other. The series began in late 2023 in Los Angeles. The Word for World

Insight, Irina Tehrani, Spells series

Spells

Visual expressions of private wishes of the heart and the spells that can maybe make them come to pass. The series is a play on our innate fascination with symbols and our inclination to imbue them with the ability to hold and convey meaning to unseen powers. Constructed as repeatable formulas, geometry is the language …

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Irina Tehrani It's a Wrap

Polyphonic

The electrifying geometries of a traveling non-objective art exhibition on the far side of the river Tejo deeply moved the two women who had met just a few hours earlier. No longer considering each other strangers before the revealing power of the artwork, the artists, recognizing their kinship, soon after engaged in a visual dialogue, …

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Irina Tehrani Square in Major #7

Square

Succinct, structured compositions frame delicate line- and color work. The Square series consists of three sub-series: Square in Minor is a closed set of six drawings introducing the series’ foundational parameters and setting the stage for further exploration in the following Square in Major and Square in Color open and ongoing works. The series emerges …

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