Farah Osuli's Paintings on Display at Islamic Art Exhibit in Pittsburgh

TEHRAN TIMES
By Arts News Desk

"My Bird, Your Cage" by Farah Osuli

PENNSYLVANIA - “My Bird, Your Cage” from the collection of Iranian artist Farah Osuli is on display at an exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art in America now underway at the Michael Berger Gallery in Pittsburgh. Entitled “Dis(Locating)Culture, Contemporary Islamic Art in America”, the exhibition features works by four other Iranian artists, Negar Ahkami, Shiva Ahmadi, Shoja Azari, and Amir Fallah, as well as one American and three Arab artists, she added. According to Osuli, the organizers aimed to make use of art to fight against the Western media, which has long tried to distort the image of Islam. As the organizers believe, the exhibition showcases some of the finest Islamic artists and aims to challenge notions of cultural and religious homogeneity. [link]