She is also a co-founder and partner of Galeria de Artes A Gentil Carioca in downtown Rio de Janeiro, alongside Marcio Botner and Ernesto Neto.
These radiant fields of expressive energy, marked by pared-down arrangements of line and form, embody both structural precision and metaphorical evocation. In 2017, two years before her passing, the Monir Museum was established at Tehran University, honoring her profound artistic legacy.
Matthew Angelo Harrison (b. 1989, Detroit, Michigan, lives and works in Detroit, Michigan)
Matthew Angelo Harrison’s sculptures merge industrial design, traditional museum display, and historical artifacts to examine histories of colonialism, African diasporas, and labor. Raised in Detroit, he earned his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2012. His materials often reference his family’s history in the American automobile industry, and he describes his work as a collaboration with machines. Harrison’s ongoing Dark Silhouettes series begun in 2017 encases African artifacts, animal bones, and other objects in resin blocks. In Dark Silhouette: Angled Gaze (2018), a West African wooden sculpture is suspended in profile, engaging with industrial design and complex anthropological aesthetics to reveal its layered cultural significance. Harrison was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and is a 2019 United States Artists Fellow, a national arts funding organization based in Chicago.
Nate Lewis (b. 1985, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, lives and works in New York)
Nate Lewis creates intricate works on paper that capture expressive figures in motion, blending photography, drawing, painting, printmaking, and paper sculpting. His signature technique involves carving and manipulating paper to create textures reminiscent of cellular structures and topographical maps. A former intensive care nurse, Lewis brings a unique perspective to the body—one that bridges the medical and procedural with the social and systemic. His monochrome palette evokes the aesthetics of X-ray imaging, recalling scientific processes while imbuing his figures with an ethereal presence. In works such as Relics in Movement (2018), Signaling III (2019), and Revive (2018), Lewis draws connections between art and science, organic and synthetic materials, medicine, and movement.
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. 1922, Qazvin, Iran, d. 2019, Tehran, Iran)
Nick Cave (b. 1959, Fulton, Missouri, lives and works in Chicago, Illinois)
Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian spent over six decades exploring the geometric foundations of her Iranian heritage, blending structure and repetition to expand perceptions of form and variation. Drawing conceptual inspiration from 20th-century abstraction and Iranian artistic and architectural traditions, she employed primary shapes to create intricate, interlocking compositions. In her 2015 work on paper, Untitled , Farmanfarmaian used rhythmic patterning and calligraphic mark-making to generate shimmering dimensional effects within the two-dimensional picture plane.
Nick Cave’s work powerfully explores themes of violence, loss, memorial, and resilience within Black communities in America. In Untitled (2018), he assembles an antique cabinet, carved wooden heads, eagles, and bronze hands—sourced online and in antique shops—to construct narratives of power, grief, and trauma. A cascade of vintage tole flowers extends along the right side, symbolizing hope, renewal, and transformation.
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