Tahereh Samadi Tari
Born in 1981 in Tehran, Tahereh studied at the Art Univesity and the Azad University, Tehran. Her paintings, characterised by a muted palette, often depict solitary figures in ambiguous urban settings. She uses a hazy painterly style, and her compositions have something photographic, even cinematographic. Her canvasses often border on a sort of mysterious geometric abstraction. As she puts it, "these paintings are part of our vague thoughts about life and our destination, what that would be?"
Tahereh has exhibited several times in Tehran, London and New York, including in Candlestar's Whispered Secrets, Murmuring Dreams and Masques of Shahrazad, and in 2008 her work was included in the Contemporary Arab and Iranian Art sale at Sotheby's, London.
