Farima Fooladi The Fever
Upcoming
Farima Fooladi The Fever
About the Exhibition
Farima Fooladi’s The Fever is a series of new paintings that explore the interplay between architecture, memory, and displacement. These paintings were created during Fooladi’s 2024 MacDowell residency in Peterborough, New Hampshire.
In the words of Rachel Vera Steinberg (Curator & Director of Exhibitions at Smack Mellon in Brooklyn, NY), “These paintings propose a progression of time when one can be confident that more memories will accrue and, therefore, increase the spatial depth. As Fooladi’s frames continue to expand, the world becomes bigger, more chaotic, and more nuanced through the palimpsests left within the edifice of her memory.”
From left: I Myself In Summer Hours Wove Together Flowers (2025), mixed media on linen, 20 x 24 in; Spring of Black Blooms (20250, mixed media on linen, 39 x 51 in; Both of Us Know The Dangers of This Depth (2025), mixed media on linen, 20 x 20 in; all images courtesy of the artist.
About the Artist
Farima Fooladi was born in Tehran, Iran, and is based in Houston, TX. Before relocating to Houston, she received an MFA and taught at Penn State University. Fooladi has received the 2023-2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Lawndale’s 2024 award for The Big Show juried by Dr. Laura Augusta, and the 2024-2025 MacDowell Fellowship. Fooladi was a 2023 Artists on Site resident at the Asia Society Texas Center, where she explored themes of identity, migration, and space in more depth. Her site-specific mural is on view at Asia Society through March 16, 2025.
Upcoming Exhibitions
Carlos Vielma An Infinite Picnic
Dario S. Bucheli Not Without a Cost
