BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME:EventsCalendar PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York LAST-MODIFIED:20240422T053451Z TZURL:https://www.tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT CATEGORIES:College of Visual and Performing Arts,Lectures and Seminars,Thes is/Dissertations DESCRIPTION:Advisor: Jess Worby Subject: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by: Sarah Valinezhad Topic: The Women of Pomegranate Garden: Visual Expre ssions of Memory, Womanhood, and Resistance Date: May 1, 2026 Time: 4:30 P M Location: Hatch St. Studios Abstract: This thesis centers on my painting practice as an exploration of memory, displacement, and endurance within the interior lives of women. Rooted in feminist thought and informed by Ir anian cultural history, the work treats domestic space as emotional archit ecture, rooms shaped by silence, care, restriction, and resilience. Throug h figurative painting, patterned interiors, and a palette grounded in pome granate red, I construct psychological spaces where beauty and danger coex ist. Drawing from Persian visual traditions such as carpet weaving and orn ament, pattern functions as a carrier of memory rather than decoration, si multaneously sheltering and enclosing the figure. Influenced by feminist a rt and artists including Arghavan Khosravi, Hung Liu, Louise Bourgeois, Re mbrandt, and Salman Toor, the work emphasizes atmosphere over narrative an d emotional truth over representation. These paintings operate as acts of remembrance and quiet resistance, translating silenced histories into visi ble form while holding fragility and strength in balance.\nEvent page: htt ps://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/master-of-fine-arts-thesis-defense-by-sarah -valinezhad.php X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Advisor: Jess Worby

Sub ject: Master of Fine Arts Thesis Defense by: Sarah Valinezhad

Topi c: The Women of Pomegranate Garden: Visual Expressions of Memory\, Womanho od\, and Resistance

Date: May 1\, 2026

Time: 4:30 PM

Location: Hatch St. Studios

Abstract:

This thesis cente rs on my painting practice as an exploration of memory\, displacement\, an d endurance within the interior lives of women. Rooted in feminist thought and informed by Iranian cultural history\, the work treats domestic space as emotional architecture\, rooms shaped by silence\, care\, restriction\ , and resilience. Through figurative painting\, patterned interiors\, and a palette grounded in pomegranate red\, I construct psychological spaces w here beauty and danger coexist.

Drawing from Persian visual tradit ions such as carpet weaving and ornament\, pattern functions as a carrier of memory rather than decoration\, simultaneously sheltering and enclosing the figure. Influenced by feminist art and artists including Arghavan Kho sravi\, Hung Liu\, Louise Bourgeois\, Rembrandt\, and Salman Toor\, the wo rk emphasizes atmosphere over narrative and emotional truth over represent ation.

These paintings operate as acts of remembrance and quiet re sistance\, translating silenced histories into visible form while holding fragility and strength in balance.

Event page: https://www.umassd.edu/events/cms/master-of-fine-arts-thesis-defen se-by-sarah-valinezhad.php

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