Arghavan Khosravi valuation
Surreal paintings on shaped, layered canvases, sometimes bound with thread.
Arghavan Khosravi was born in Iran in 1984 and works in the United States, and the paintings draw on Persian miniature painting and on the experience of exile and of women's constrained freedom.
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Bio
Arghavan Khosravi was born in Iran in 1984 and works in the United States, and the paintings draw on Persian miniature painting and on the experience of exile and of women's constrained freedom. They are physically unusual: canvases are shaped, layered one over another, cut and sometimes stitched or bound with actual thread and cord, so that the surface is constructed rather than flat and the imagery of restraint is literal as well as depicted.
Unique works are the market. Their construction is the practical issue for anyone holding one — these are assemblies of shaped supports with three-dimensional elements, and they cannot be rolled, are awkward to crate, and have components that can shift or detach. Any condition assessment needs to cover the structure as well as the paint. Documentation from the gallery, including installation notes where they exist, should stay with the piece. The market has risen quickly, so acquisition date is relevant.
Shahr-e Kord, Tehran and Rhode Island
Khosravi was born in Shahr-e Kord and moved to Tehran at eight. She studied graphic design at Islamic Azad University and illustration at the University of Tehran, and worked as a graphic designer and children's book illustrator, with around twenty books to her name. In 2011 she was detained by the morality police. She moved to the United States in 2015, spent a year on the postbaccalaureate programme at Brandeis and took an MFA in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in 2018.
Her first gallery solo show was at Lyles & King in New York in 2019, and the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire gave her a first museum solo show in 2022. Her work is in the collections of the Currier, the RISD Museum, the Rose Art Museum, the Newport Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. Hair recurs as a symbol in the paintings, and the motif drew wide attention after the Mahsa Amini protests of 2022.
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