December & January Art Exhibit
Paintings by Maedeh Asgharpour
Works by Maedeh Asgharpour
Maedeh Asgharpour is a visual artist and the City Curator for the South Burlington Public Gallery. She holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the School of Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication (ATEC) at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). Her work explores the psychological and emotional aspects that surface in processing migration, and the emotional void of feeling uprooted. Her writings and illustrations complement each other in a poetic fusion to express such sentiments in narrative ways that can seem ambiguous or obscure at first glance, yet immerse the viewer into an atmosphere of wonderment and possibility.
Her works have been featured and won awards at national and international festivals and exhibitions. She won the first and the second prizes in the POP-UP Locker Exhibition, “Freedom of expression” in UTD, and the best Graphic Art, ‘2020 HINDSIGHT’ at the 6th annual Persian Art Exhibition, Irving Art Association in Texas. Her work was selected as one of the top 10 finalists in the “IV International Skylight Prize Illustration, SkyLight 2017” in Colombia. She participated in a novel sculpture installation by the ATEC LightSquad from The University of Texas at Dallas, installed at the Eisemann Center in Richardson, Texas. Her works have been shown in several solo and group exhibitions in different countries, including the United States, Iran, France, and Colombia.
