“Amir H. Fallah, Painting For An Audience Of One With Lessons For A Lifetime,” by Chadd Scott in Forbes.
“Amir H. Fallah, Painting For An Audience Of One With Lessons For A Lifetime,” by Chadd Scott in Forbes. “Three exhibitions to see in New York this weekend,” in The Art Newspaper. “Editors’ Picks,” in Artnet News In Conversation: Artist Amir H. Fallah and Collector Liz Dimmitt, January 28th. Watch the recording An Iranian-American artist based in Los Angeles, Amir H. Fallah and his parents came to the United States in the wake of the Iranian Revolution. Fallah is best known for richly detailed portraits of people whose families and identities were similarly formed by immigration, assimilation, and otherness. In his past work, the artist explored the traditional conventions of portraiture while masking his subjects’ physical characteristics with fabrics and a standardized skin tone. Instead of physically representing his subjects, he allowed them to narrate their own stories through the objects they chose to include and how they situated themselves within their spaces or
