Sarra jahedi biography

Sarra Jahedi is an artist of many mediums: a poet, sculptor, filmmaker, comedian, musician, and most recently, a painter.

Jahedi’s paintings combine abstraction and portraiture, drawing on the work of Rothko and Pollock to bring the physical immediacy of conceptual modern art into the context of figurative representations.

Sarra jahedi biography

“Meticulousness is a falsity in art,” says Jahedi, who opts instead for almost stream-of-consciousness style painting. “The people [in my paintings] reveal themselves mostly to me,” Jahedi says.

Averse to the inaccessibility of gallery shows, Jahedi favors displaying her work in more mundane settings that allow her art to interact with the real world.

Her newest show, “Welcome to the Family,” which takes place tomorrow, July 21, in Villa Park, fits with this recent move towards accessibility: it’s in a house, rather than a gallery.

The house itself is a home set for demolition borrowed from Jahedi’s architect