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SOUR CHERRIES: FRANKIE KRUPA VAHDANI


  • Make.Shift Art Space 306 Flora St Bellingham, WA, 98225 (map)

GALLERY HOURS:

THURS - SAT 1 PM-6 PM

SHOW IS UP THROUGH THE LAST SATURDAY OF THE MONTH

Please email Gallery@makeshiftartspace.org for all sales inquiries


"Alchemically Recycled"

flashe, wax pastel and colored pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$400

Artist Statement:

Phosphorescent, color soaked paintings and drawings are a placeholder for communicating ideas on what it means to be first generation American. The work comes from an inability to define the artist in terms of personhood, as Iranian Polish American. Through science fiction and mythology, works are created that acknowledge and process being a child of diaspora in America. 


Thoughts on “Women’s Work” - the emotional labor silently demanded across social, political and economic embodiments of life are woven together with the experiences of being a child of immigrants. The quiet cultural balancing acts that go unnoticed in a predominately white homogeneous landscape. The kid in the cafeteria with the "weird lunch", the child of diaspora.


There is little space in this ecosystem for Middle Eastern communities, especially women. My work is offered as a meeting ground for those isolated.


In recent months this meeting place has turned into a rallying cry in support of the Feminist Revolution happening in Iran. Fighting for basic human rights; freedom of choice, freedom to dance in public, freedom to feel the wind in your hair, the freedom to be. Countless people have lost their lives. Kidnapped, tortured, wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death without trial if not already killed. A regime suffocating and silencing some of the world's most talented minds. To bring awareness and solidarity to those stolen, and killed by the Islamic Republic haunting Iran. To show gratitude and give power to the women of Iran leading a revolution that is burning white hot like the sun. A kind of strength and determination that is rare to see. A strength that is hoped will spread to all who take a moment to learn about the movement; for bodily sovereignty and human liberty. 

ZAN ZANDEGHI AZADI 

WOMAN LIFE FREEDOM

"Neon Quilt Rug"

watercolor, acrylic, wax pastel and pencil on paper

6x5"

2021-2022

$250.00

"Women, Life, Freedom"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2022

$250.00

The news and large media corporations have failed us. Not reporting the daily abuses, murders, kidnappings and generational traumas being inflicted by the morality police and Iranian military. Too wrapped up in capitalist politics and oil fueled money games, instead they further vilify Iran and Islam. Look beyond what major news outlets are saying. Research. Critical thinking. Look back for context so Iran can move forward and reclaim herself.

"Keeping Hope for My Daughter"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2022

$250.00

Our sisters across Iran and Kurdistan are held hostage, their bodies and lives are not their own. 

Here in the States, we watch as old white men strip back the undeniable rights we have to our own bodies. 

What world will she inherit? 

God fuckin bless the women and young people protesting in Iran.

"Familiar Family Drama"

acrylic, wax pastel and pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$400.00

Bio:

Frankie Krupa Vahdani (b. 1990, she/her) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Skagit Valley. Krupa Vahdani graduated from Western Washington University with a BA in Studio Art. Krupa Vahdani has been a resident at Centrum in Port Townsend, WA and has exhibited work at Public Pool Gallery in Los Angeles, CA, The Vestibule in Seattle, WA, Fuller Rosen Gallery in Portland, OR and Schack Art Center in Everett, WA.


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"Untitled"

pencil on paper

12x9"

2021

$250.00

"Women’s Work 2”

yarn

5x8"

2022

SOLD

"Cultural Appropriation Station"

yarn

5x8"

2022

$50

"Calm and Bliss"

flashe and colored pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$400.00

"Quiet Strength"

pencil and vinyl on wood

24x18"

2023

$750.00

"Cultural Brokeheartedness"

pencil and acrylic on wood

20x16"

2023

"Untitled"

ink and flashe on canvas,

10x8.5"

2023

$200

"Persian Boots on a Cowboy Rug"

acrylic on paper

15x10"

2020

SOLD

"Untitled"

pencil and acrylic on wood

14x11"

2023

$500

"Paradise or Perdition"

flashe, ink and acrylic on wood

24x18"

2023

$1,000.00

"Clearance"

acrylic and colored pencil on paper

12x9"

2022

$250.00

"Farr"

flashe and acrylic on wood

24x18’’

2023

$1,000.00

"Untitled"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2023

$100

"The West Doesn't Care"

pencil on paper

10x8"

2022

$100

"They've Lit It On Fire"

pencil and vinyl on paper

30x23"

2023

$500

"Persepolis"

pencil and acrylic on wood,

24x18"

2023

$1000

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Earlier Event: February 3
REVOLUTIONARY MINDS