Everyone can relate to a character or story they have seen or read in a comic book, as well as to the associated meaning. Comic books connect to people of all ages, races, and cultures. Art can be an impactful way to expose the lack of power that women have in their lives, but it can also be dangerous to the maker.Įlena Masrour has drawn inspiration from American comic books to soften the viewer’s entry into her critique. She critiques Islamic fundamentalist beliefs that control people’s life and limit their freedom. Masrour highlights these experiences from a woman’s point of view. At the core of Masrour’s concern are the injustices, hardships, and torments that innocent people in Iran are enduring. The Iranian revolution in 1978 has had an impact on Iranian women’s daily lives dramatically as well as reshaped their identities and their role in society. Masrour represents a generation of Iranian people who aspire to be modern at a time when religious leaders continue to weaponize the rules of God to maintain a stranglehold on power.Īs an Iranian woman whose life has been heavily touched by the political events of the half decades in Iran, she has focused on modern Iranian women’s issues. In addition to serving as an artist-in-residence at Baker University, she is a foundation faculty member at the Kansas City Art Institute.Įlena Masrour’s works are inspired by the proliferation of religious propaganda over the last 40 years in her home country, Iran, and social changes that have occurred following the Revolution. Louis The Delaware Contemporary Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware and Delaware College Art Gallery, Media Pennsylvania. Louis, Missouri CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea Des Lee Gallery, St. Her work has been exhibited in Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis and a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa. She holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Sia Joung is an artist who lives and works in Kansas City, Kansas. The two intertwined surfaces create a new image that is a portrait of herself.
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The folding on her paintings eclipse parts of her original paintings, hindering the full view. Joung’s paintings are made with materials of the Midwest (oil paints, egg tempera, and unprimed canvases) and migrated materials (hanji, Korean paper used for painting). This question branches into migration, nature, and a culture of a place. Sia questions how minorities and immigrants can value living and working in rural towns while fully belonging to the land. While living in a town in rural central Kansas for the last five years, the nature of Kansas offered a place of solace.
Joung’s current project, “The Surface of Your Land,” asks a question of belonging in Kansas. His work is an attempt to represent human beings' desire to believe in the impossible.Baker University Artist in Residence Sia Joung is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting and installation. As a result, the term "magic realism" describes his work accurately. Gonsalves injects a sense of magic into realistic scenes. Ideas are largely generated by the external world and involve recognizable human activities, using carefully planned illusionist devices. In his post college years, Gonsalves worked full time as an architect, also painting trompe l'oeil murals and theatre sets.Īlthough Gonsalves' work may appear to be surrealistic, it differs in that the images are deliberately planned and result from conscious thought. The "magic realism" approach of Magritte along with the precise perspective illusions of Escher came to be influences in his future work.
By age 12, his awareness of architecture grew as he learned perspective techniques and first began to paint renderings of imagined buildings.Īfter an introduction to artist Dali, Gonsalves began his first surrealist paintings. During his childhood, he developed an interest in drawing from imagination using various media. Artist Rob Gonsalves was born in Toronto in 1959.
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