MAHDIEH
VALI-ZADEH
What I do is to paint poetry in abstract forms
ABOUT
PORTFOLIO
Sample Works / Whirling Series
ABOUT ME
CERTIFICATIONS AND DEGREES:
•Excellence Certification from the Calligraphers Association of Iran, 1999
•Bachelor of Art in English Literature, 2004
•Master of Art in Teaching
English, 2011
•TESL Ontario Certification, 2012
•A Full Year Comparative Study of ‘English Romanticism and Persian Sufism’ in Literature and Poetry, 2013-14
•Master of Art in Comparative Literature - comparing Persian Sufism and English Romanticism, 2016
EXHIBITIONS AND EXPERIENCES:
•Solo Calligraphy Exhibition, Iran 2002
•Solo Calligraphy Painting Exhibition, Iran 2010
•Solo Calligraphy Painting Exhibition, Toronto-Canada 2013
•Solo Calligraphy Painting Exhibition, Los Angeles-US 2013
•Group Exhibitions since 1999
•Stage designs for a concert on Rumi's poetry, Toronto 2013
•Illustrations for a video by the internationally renowned singer, Shahram Nazeri, 2015
WHAT I'VE DONE
I am into art and literature. After immigrating to Canada, I decided to pursue my interests even more seriously. I am a graduate student of Comparative Literature in the York university of Toronto now. What I do first is to study philosephy and apply it to poetry. As a serious by-product of this procedure, my post-modern paitings are representatives of my trend of thought and illustrative of the poetry of the internationally known Persian poet, Rumi. Currently, I am obssessed with the concept of Light and its representation in Rumi's poetry as well as depicting it in my art.
WHAT I DO
I am from Iran, from the Land of Persia, the Land of Poetry, the land where literature has been put into miniature paintings throughout the years of the country’s vicissitudinous history as a doorway of expression. I am from the land of grandeur imagination. What I love most about art is to learn to think and to imagine, something that I find in our everlasting poetry. What I do with this sublime inherited material is to put it into colors via abstract or semi-abstract forms. What inspires me is Persian poetry the essence of which I depict through a combination of Persian forms of calligraphy and modern abstract painting: postmodern creations.