Rite of Passage
International Exhibition
Theme: Environmental Art, Art & Nature, Nature in Cultures and Cultural Celebrations such as the Persian New Year Called Nowruz
Place and Date: The San Francisco City Hall, through Iranican’s Nowruz Celebration Venue on March 25, 2016
We are honored to announce the accepted artists of the “Rite of Passage” exhibition. We received over 350 art submissions from over 130 artists living worldwide including United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Iran, Japan, Ukraine, France, Germany, Hong Kong, and Czech Republic. Narrowing down the selection and curating works for the exhibition was a difficult task. The overall quality of submissions was high and because we have a limited space in showcasing the works at the San Francisco City Hall, we decided to exhibit part of the works only digitally on our online gallery.
We wish all the artists who are not accepted well in finding alternative support for exhibiting their works and hope that they will consider submitting works again to our future exhibitions. As a matter of policy, we do not provide applicants with written or verbal feedback on their applications.
Artists/Works that are accepted to be exhibited at the San Francisco City Hall
Abbas Mirzaie- Untitled 02
Akbar Mikhak- Untitled 02
April Lelia- Humancocoon
Arash Shirinbab- Inside the Ocean of Desert
Arash Shirinbab- Rain
Arash Shirinbab- The Desert of Love
Blake Mcfarland- Image
Carla Chan- black moves low
Carla Chan- when a circle meets the sky the cold 1
Elnaz Bandegi- 1
Elnaz Bandegi- 2
Fatemeh (Arghavan) Karimi- Zaalo Roodabe
Firouzeh Tahereh Bakhtiari- Sunset
J. M. Golding- You know without having seen
Maryam Rast Ghalam- Untitled 01
Maryam Rostampour- Persian Pool
Maryam Rostampour- Persian Pool (2)
Masoume Amirpour Raieni- IMAG8462 (1)
Masoume Amirpour Raieni- IMAG9356 (1)
Merle Elias- Margaret Pastel Narcissus
Minoosh zomorodinia- Clouds
Minoosh zomorodinia- Nowruz
Mostafa Omrani- Untitled 03
Nasser Arabpour- Landscape-1
Nathalie Brilliant- 12615654_10100209937250903_82…878790_o (1)
Nathalie Brilliant- Image2 2 (1)
Negar Honarpisheh- Dancing with the sea
Nikola Klanicova- Landscape of the soul II
Nikola Klanicova- On the self-consistency principle
Nima Arabi- 02
Nima Arabi- 03
Parastoo Eskandari- Untitled 03
Randy Dixon- East Wind, West Wind (1)
Randy Dixon- Spring Wind
Raziye Iranpour- raziye1
Ronald Y Nakasone- Circle
Sahar Shams- 27862_n
Shaghayegh Shirinbab- P1040211
Shaghayegh Shirinbab- P1040244
Shermeen Sidiki- Creator of the Gardens
Shirin Alizadeh- (1)
Shirin Alizadeh- (2)
Soleyman Sasoon- Untitled 02
Soleyman Sasoon- Untitled 03
Soraya Sharghi- Artwork#1
Soraya Sharghi- Artwork#3
Tahmoores Bahadorani- Untitled 02
Takako Matoba- Countryside
Takako Matoba- Three windows
Tayebeh Ezatollahinejad- Tajikestan-nowroz
Tayebeh Ezatollahinejad- Tajilstan- Nowroz 3
Tayebeh Ezatollahinejad- Turkmen
Yari Ostovany- Simorgh Descending II
Yuri Hyun- Beautiful earth (1)
Zahra Seyedan- Image
Artists/Works that are accepted to be exhibited on our online gallery
Carolyn WarmSun- Illumination
Dave Platford- Sinai
Davood Zandian- Untitled 01
Elahe Monireddin- Corner 2
Elham Mohamadizadeh- Untitled 3
Iman Yousefi- photo_2016-03-16_11-19-30
Jeffrey Gomez- Mont Sainte-Victoire (1)
Jill Manani- Untitled 02
Jill Manani- Untitled 03
Judith Boily Valois- Words
Khalil Samaeijablou- 1
Mahmood Vatankhah Khaneghah- Mahmood
Mani Mehrzad- The nowless orchard (13)
Manli Salimah Chao- The Kaleidosco…f Heavens (1)
Maryam Rast Ghalam- Untitled 02
Massome Habib- IMG_20160304_130223
Melissa Kreisa- Silent
Mohammad Javad Sayyadian- mohammad javad1
Mohammad Taghipour- sarve naz
Mojgan Reisi- Untitled 02
Mostafa Omrani- Untitled 01
Nasser Arabpour- Landscape-2
Nasser-Arabpour- Landscape-3
Nima Arabi- 01
Raha Mohseni Kermanshahi- heyrat 03
Tahmoores Bahadorani- Untitled 01
Yari Ostovany- Numinous, Painting (1)
Artists selected from the “Rite of Passage” first exhibition, to be exhibited at the San Francisco City Hall
Amir Hossein Kulivand
Asiyeh Mohamadian
Atefeh Arani
Atefeh Khas
Behzad Nadalian
Davoud Kulivand
Earth Group
Farzaneh Najafi
Fereshteh Alamshah
Fereshteh Zamani
Karim Alahkhani
Leila Fallahi
Low Art Group
Mahdiyeh Dehghani
Mahmoud Maktabi
Mahtab Ghaemimanesh
Mahtab Ghaemimanesh
Mehdi Javaheri
Mitra Soltani
Moslem Ebrahimi
Nooshin Naficy
Open5 Group
Parisa Rajabian
Razieh goidarzi
Shahrnaz Zarkesh
Siavash Amiri Rad
Sima Yousefnia
Sima Yousefnia
Tara Goudarzi
“Rite of Passage” is the title of the visual arts section of Iranican's Nowruz Venue at the San Francisco City Hall on March 25, 2016. Coinciding with spring and Nowruz, this exhibition demonstrates the rooted attitude of respect and honor in Iranian culture regarding nature and stewardship of the natural environment through the community at large.
The focus is on the unique cultural, spiritual and creative interpretations of the artists who have been working directly in their natural environment or have implemented nature in their art through their creative expression. As their personal investigations also express the self in relation to this environment, we hope to expand and create a new conversation between environmental art and personal spirituality.
The exhibition consists of digital art, new media art, video art, an installation by Saba Ghamati, and a durational performance by Angela Newsham, Charlie Watts, Hannah Beck, Nathalie Brilliant, and Maria Dawn in which their bodies are utilized in a sculptural way through relating, engaging, and holding dynamic positions with the things found from nature, and each other.
“Rite of Passage” is an extension of an inaugural exhibition with the same title held at the Gallery of ICCNC in Oakland from February 20 to March 20, 2016. The extended exhibition at the San Francisco City Hall is co-curated and juried by Arash Shirinbab and Minoosh Zomorodinia of Ziya Art Center out of hundreds of art submissions worldwide, with the aid of assistant curators, Faezeh Faezipour and Shaghayegh Shirinbab.
