Huile sur toile, 2021
Métamorphose floue des sources lumineuses
Le lustre et la bougie
Le suspendu et l’érigée
Ce qui brule ou est brulé
Ça goutte et ça émane
Ça se fige
Sur le doux voile ondulant d’une rêverie.
Pardiss Amerian (b. 1990, Tehran) is a painter currently based in Montreal. Her practice is a process-based exploration of painting and collage driven by narrative asides, as a way to address temporality, transhistoricity, and the lyric potential of an imagined elsewhere. Amerian holds a MFA from Concordia University (2021) and a BFA from OCAD University (2015). Recent exhibitions include Jack Hanley Gallery (New York), Zalucky Contemporary (Toronto, ON), and Gallery PFOAC (Montreal, QC). Her work has been supported by the Ontario Arts Council and can be found in public and private collections in Canada, the US, and France.