October 1st, 2022 – April 6th, 2024
Curated by Dina Zarif“Women, Life, Freedom”
She rises…
her hair flying in the wind…
her voice lifting to the sky…
her being becoming the fire that melts the frozen grounds of time…
SAY HER NAME…
say it loud…Mahsa Amini the 22 year old female whose death enflamed thousands of women and men to rise up.
For, the future IS female…
and #metoo is a global movement of our time…
A monumental uprising for feminism and women rights, against police brutality and oppression is happening in Iran right now…Say Her Name…
Be the voice of the voiceless…
#MahsaAmini
CLOSING RECEPTION:
April 6th, 2024
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Mara Lea Brown is a Bay Area Artist. Her work explores human singularity and relationships through realistic charcoal drawing and mixed media with elements from nature. Having been born in California and grown up in Southern Spain, diversity and a search for connection are always subtly present in her work. In her portraiture, Mara enjoys the process of learning from the individual as well as from a phenomenological exploration of the human form. Recently Mara has been working on a series examining human relationships to ancestry, immigration, travel and belonging. She uses motifs, such as roots and wings, to illustrate the beauty and struggle of this search for the self. For her work on the interior mural “SAY HER NAME” she collaborated with her daughter Emma Timberlea Brown at Red Poppy Art House.
ARTIST STATEMENT
“Women, Life, Freedom”
She rises…
her hair flying in the wind…
her voice lifting to the sky…
her being becoming the fire that melts the frozen grounds of time…
SAY HER NAME…
say it loud…
Mahsa Amini the 22 year old female whose death enflamed thousands of women and men to rise up.
For, the future IS female…
and #metoo is a global movement of our time…
A monumental uprising for feminism and women rights, against police brutality and oppression is happening in Iran right now…
Say Her Name…
Be the voice of the voiceless…
#MahsaAmini
Dina Zarif is an Iranian immigrant, performer, designer, and vocalist who combines Western classical singing with Middle Eastern styles inspired from her Persian roots. Some of her credits include SF International Arts Festival, Palace of Fine Art, San Jose Stage, Golden Thread Productions at Brava Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and the staged reading of Layla & Majnun at BAMPFA as part of the symposium with Mark Morris Dance Group and the Silk Road Ensemble. She tours both nationally and internationally as a costume designer and actress in the shadow light production Feathers of Fire. Dina is also a part-time architect and received her MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts.
