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Artworks
Shiva Ahmadi
Jelly Beans, 2019Mixed media on canvas50 x 60 inchesHG15283$32,000Across a variety of media, Ahmadi uses formal beauty to seduce viewers into her exquisitely rendered worlds. What appear to be scenes of fantasy are in fact images of conflict...Across a variety of media, Ahmadi uses formal beauty to seduce viewers into her exquisitely rendered worlds. What appear to be scenes of fantasy are in fact images of conflict and chaos. Here, brightly colored jelly beans are scattered carelessly onto a burning mass of rubble, while a nearby structure is pillaged and plundered. Jelly beans are a recurring motif throughout Ahmadi’s work, the saccharine imagery sharply juxtaposed against the turmoil.
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