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Amir Zaki (artist)
Amir Zaki (born 1974, Beaumont, California) is an American artist based in Southern California. He is best known for "hybridized" photographs using digital and analog technologies that explore the rhetoric of authenticity, vocabulary of documentary, and acts of looking and constructing images.Sholis, Brian. "Amir Zaki," ''Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography'', Anthology, London: Phaidon Press, p. 328–329.Michno, Christopher. "Critic's Picks: Los Angeles," ''Art Ltd'', January 2015. His work often focuses on the iconography and landscape of Southern California, simultaneously celebrating the banal and vernacular and subverting its related mythology.Cameron, Dan''California Landscape into Abstraction'' Newport Beach, CA: Orange County Museum of Art, p. 54–55. Retrieved March 6, 2019.Tumlir, Jan. "Amir Zaki," in ''California Biennial 2006'', Elizabeth Armstrong, Rita Gonzalez, and Karen Moss, Newport Beach, CA: Orange County Museum of Art, p.35–45, 168–171. Zaki has exh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beaumont, California
Beaumont is a city in Riverside County, California, United States, located at the summit of the San Gorgonio Pass, between the San Bernardino Mountains and Mount San Gorgonio to the north, and the San Jacinto Mountains and San Jacinto Peak to the south. Early native American inhabitants included the Serrano and Cahuilla people, who still live on reservation lands in the area. Beaumont is bordered on the east by the city of Banning, on the south by the city of San Jacinto, on the west by the city of Calimesa, and on the north by the unincorporated community of Cherry Valley. History Etymology Beaumont, French for "Beautiful Mountain", received its name in 1887 from Henry C. Sigler, president of the Southern California Investment Company, for its view of Mount San Jacinto. Early History During the early 1850s, several surveying parties passed through the vicinity of present-day Beaumont in search of a pass that would connect the east to the Pacific Ocean. The San Gorgo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
