Sonia Balassanian

Omar Kholeif

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Sternberg Press
15 September 2022

Picture books

Series: Imagine Otherwise

Travel from the monasteries of rural Armenia to the exhibition halls of MoMA in the first comprehensive monograph of Iranian American artist Sonia Balassanian.

Travel from the monasteries of rural Armenia to the exhibition halls of MoMA in the first comprehensive monograph of Iranian American artist Sonia Balassanian.

In this deeply personal portrait of Sonia Balassanian (b. 1942, Arak), an Iranian American artist of Armenian descent, author Dr. Omar Kholeif weaves together poetry, memoir, and historical anecdote to trace the contours of Balassanian's world.

With a career spanning more than five decades, Balassanian is known for her multidisciplinary, politically charged practice that spans painting, poetry, photography, video, installation, performance, and drawing. At the heart of her corpus are colorful, large-scale, lyrically abstract paintings that she began in the 1960s. In the 1980s, after she had moved to New York, her work took a political turn following the Iranian Revolution. Balassanian drew newfound attention for Hostages- A Diary (1980), an installation of drawings that mapped the experience of following the Iran hostage crisis from the United States, and for Cauterized Literature (1987), a mixed-media series of burnt books mounted on canvas that comments on censorship in Iran.

Balassanian lives and works between New York and Armenia. This is the first comprehensive monograph of her art and life.

Published by Sternberg Press in collaboration with artPost21

By: Omar Kholeif
Imprint: Sternberg Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 162mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 153g
ISBN: 9781915609076
ISBN 10: 1915609070
Series: Imagine Otherwise
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Omar Kholeif has worked as a broadcaster, filmmaker, editor, publisher, and museum director. They have curated over 60 exhibitions, and authored, co-authored, or edited over 30 books, which have been translated into 12 languages, including Goodbye, World! Looking at Art in the Digital Age (2018). Dr Kholeif was co-curator of ""Sharjah Biennial 14- Leaving the Echo Chamber"" and serves as director of collections and senior curator, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE and is the founding director of www.artpost21.com.

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