Amir H. Fallah

Spaced Case

1/9/2010 - 2/13/2010 at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions

(Bong Rips, Magical Potions, Mystical Flora, and Avatars)

Opening Reception: Saturday, January 9th, 4-7 PM

Employing a range of American and Iranian imagery and styles, from miniature painting to graffiti-art, Amir H. Fallah creates elaborate, lush and complicated compositions in his paintings. For his first solo exhibit at Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, Fallah will exhibit a new body of work which is tailor-made for the gallery's hometown of San Francisco; loaded with references of the pop, psychedelic, spiritual and virtual adventures of California lifestyle. From elaborately colorful arrangements of flowers and kaleidoscopic water pipes to live action role playing, Fallah playfully incorporates his voyeuristic perspective on the New Age and illicit drug cultures; themes riddled with mysticism, superstition and desire to transform oneself while achieving a state of bliss.

"I have a love/hate relationship with all things relating to drug culture, the occult, New Age, and so on. I'm attracted to the aesthetics of these worlds, but I am repulsed by the message."
-Amir H. Fallah

"Although whimsical, these canvases possess staggering social inferences, those aimed at the amalgamation of his cultural background, as seen with cutouts of Persian vases and Islamic artifacts and references to American psychedelic culture and Western philosophy. The various compartments in which his figures and objects appear are reminiscent of the division of interior spaces seen in examples of Persian miniature painting. The work also alludes to the New Age, quest for "eternal youth" culture that has run rampant in Los Angeles, yet has been a fixation in various cultures throughout the history of mankind."
- Maymanah Farhat

Born in Iran, Fallah immigrated to the U.S. with his parents as a child and was raised on the East Coast. Fallah attended Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) where he earned his BFA in Painting in 2002. Fallah moved to Los Angeles in 2002 and received his MFA in Painting from UCLA in 2005. Over the past decade Fallah's painting, collage and sculptural installations have been exhibited internationally at Cherry And Martin-Los Angeles, 31 Grand-New York, The Third Line-Dubai, Nathan Larramendy Gallery-Ojai, LA Louver Gallery, Weatherspoon Art Museum-North Carolina and The Sharjah Biennial, 2009.

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