Abdolreza Aminlari
Abdolreza Aminlari is a Brooklyn-based artist with work at the intersection of contemporary craft and social practice. He uses geometry and abstraction to access the cross-cultural reception of embroidery and labor. A variety of visual effects are achieved using 24-K gold thread and common sewing thread, which is hand-stitched directly into paper. Taking influence from architecture and patterning, the works function as discrete investigations of scale, light, and color. Aminlari’s general practice is further concerned with the labor proposition and fundamental process of repetition inherent in the act of sewing.
Aminlari (b. 1979, Tehran) received his BFA from the College for Creative Studies, Detroit. His work has been nationally and Internationally exhibited, including SITUATIONS, New York; Jackie Klempay, Brooklyn; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago; Quadro Gallery, Dubai; KVKM Kunstverein Cologne; Taymour Grahne, New York; the Derfner Judaica Museum, New York; and Long House, New York. His set for “Gesang an das noch namenlose Land” was shown in collaboration with musician Katharina Rosenberger in Basel, Switzerland; Hanover, Germany; Sélestat, France; Schlosskirche, Germany; and New York City. His work is in The Jalanbo Collection, New York; The New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY; Fidelity Corporate Art Collection, Boston, MA; TD Bank, Toronto, Canada; and College for Creative Studies, Detroit, Michigan.
