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FEATURED ARTIST
SOLMAZ ASHERI
Photo Credit: Solmaz Asheri
Solmaz Asheri is an emerging visual artist based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Originally from Turkmenistan, a former USSR, she moved to Canada with her family as refugees in 2005, and they have been living here ever since. She graduated as a valedictorian from NSCAD University with a BFA in Fine Art and a BA in Art History in 2017. She is of Russian-Korean and Iranian-Turkmen heritage, and speaks both Russian and English.
Her work deals primarily with dreams, memory, and the intricate connection between image and text. She is interested in figuring out how poetry can capture an image, and how an image can capture poetry.
Working with mediums such as acrylics, tempera, watercolour, pastel, graphite, collage, and drawing inspiration from her cultural background and childhood memories, she creates paintings and drawings to try to depict and decipher the mystery of the natural world.
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