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Yassi Mazandi
Yassi Mazandi, born in Tehran, Iran, lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Mazandi is a sculptor, painter and social activist. Personal life and education 1980-81 studied at Beechlawn College, Oxford, England. 1992-95 Greenwich House Pottery, New York, NY. Exhibitions and Residencies Public Collections *Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio *Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, California *Roanoke College (Permanent Art Collection), Salem, Virginia *University of California, Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara, California Solo exhibitions *2022-2023: Yassi Mazandi: Language of the Birds, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, Los Angeles, California *2022: Yassi Mazandi: In Flight, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, California *2018-2019: Yassi Mazandi in Residence, Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Foundation, Ojai, California 2016: Yassi Mazandi: Germs on Sheets, Maloney Fine Art, Los Angeles, California *2014: Yassi Mazandi: Sacred Wheel, Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
