Artist of the Month
Shiva Pakdel
Shiva Pakdel grew up in Abadan, Iran during the 60s. Abadan then, was one of the most liberal cities in Iran, offering a modern western lifestyle within a land filled with history and tradition. This immersion in and exposure to both eastern and western culture and art, provided Shiva with a great appreciation and enjoyment of both Iranian art, culture, history, and poetry, as well as the art and culture of the west.
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Born in Iran, Hamed learned to sing at the age of seven, and studied Tar and Setar, under the tutorship of some of the masters of classical Persian music. By the time he was twenty; he could play five instruments expertly, adding Tanboor, Oud and Daf to his existing repertoire. After receiving a B.A. degree in music composition, he began writing his own music and performing in concerts as both a vocalist and instrumentalist, with some of the most highly acclaimed music ensembles before wide audiences in Iran, Europe and Asia.
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Arien Valizadeh is a 22 year old Iranian-American artist. ;During these times of “War on Terror”, I feel obligated to expose the beauties of Iranian culture to the public as well as proposing a synthesis with the conflicting western and the middle eastern cultures.” Arien was raised in America but still has a strong affinity towards the deep Iranian culture.
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Babak Daleki, is a Persian ceramic artist specializing in carving tiles, hand built vessels, exotic platters, and bowls, which have a lot of details with eye catching textured and glaze washed to complete the effects of ancient designs. Babak has been a potter for over 20 years and has had many exhibitions and worked with many great masters throughout IRAN and the US, to perfect his art of pottery. His work has been published in numerous articles in art magazines and newspapers in Iran and the United States.
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Music Composer Ramin Djawadi’s makes a “sound difference” in Hollywood productions. Ramin Djawadi (born 1974 in Duisburg, Germany to a German Mother and Iranian Father) is a composer of orchestral music for film and television. Djawadi has been widely credited as a composer for additional music, orchestrator and as an assistant composer to Hans Zimmer.
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Simin Meykadeh studied art in Tehran, London, and the San Francisco Art Institute. She has lived and worked in San Francisco since 1983. Simin has exhibited in group shows in London, New York, Washington, D.C. and San Francisco. Her paintings are in many private collections. In 1989, she and four other artists were chosen to represent Iran at the Barbican Center in London for “The Contemporary Art of the Islamic World”. Her work is now in the permanent collection at the Royal Museum of Jordan in Amman.
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Education:
1990 B.A. in painting from the Faculty of Fine Arts, Alzahra University ,Tehran.
1996 M.F.A. in Art Criticism Tehran University, Tehran.
1993-1998 Instructor, Drawing and Elements of Design, at Azad University,
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Award-winning translator, Niloufar Talebi was born in London to Iranian parents. She received a BA in Comparative Literature from UC Irvine, and an MFA in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. She studied theater with Jean Shelton and has produced and performed nationally. Her translations have been anthologized and published in Two Lines, Poetry International, CIRCUMFERENCE, Agni on-line and Harvard Divinity Bulletin, and she is the guest editor of the Spring 2006 issue of Rattapallax.
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My style is Naturalistic, influenced by the style of “Persian Miniature” paintings. I have been painting since childhood, and have been most influenced by the Masters of Miniature paintings. A common theme in my work is the Gardens of paradise, as depicted by my memories; Persian poetry and literature, images from the past, etc., they all have the back drop of a “baagh”, a Persian Garden, which as Persians, is deeply set in our psyche.
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