FB Projects: Fatemeh Burnes Art Studio
Fatemeh Burnes Open Studio and Share-A-Wall Initiative with Megan Frances and Elana Kundell.
Fatemeh Burnes is a Los Angeles based artist, educator, curator, and activist. Her paintings and photography focus on nature and human nature by looking at modern events and tragedies, both ecological and social, and the ways those events manifest in contemporary life. Some of her most current work highlights environmental and identity issues, specifically in the context of her experiences as an immigrant and as a woman.
In her creative process, the artist leans toward subconscious associations, where perceptually recognizable and unrecognizable images coexist in surreal spaces. She playfully and symbolically uses materials, layering to construct and deconstruct, cover and uncover, expose and transform time, space, and language. The resulting visual poems feature intermingling opposites—order and chaos, reality and fantasy—struggling for parity and debating their interchangeability.
She obtained formal and informal artistic training, earning both a BFA and MFA, as well as pursuing graduate studies in art history and exhibition design. Since 1992, Burnes has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, curated more than 100 exhibitions, and authored numerous publications.
Fatemeh Burnes
fatemehburnes.com
@burnesfatemeh
Share-A-Wall Initiative
Sharing is a fundamental aspect of human interaction, spanning from essentials like food to the intangible realm of ideas. Founded by Fatemeh Burnes, The Share-A-Wall initiative embodies this ethos by actively promoting the arts and humanities. It encourages supporters to grant wider visibility and a broader audience to the voices of many artists. Through various platforms and spaces, Share-A-Wall upholds a longstanding tradition of inclusivity and accessibility, demonstrating that anyone, with just one wall, can catalyze meaningful change.
Megan Frances is a Los Angeles-based artist whose paintings pay homage to the beauty of nature. In her work, abstract curvilinear motifs interact with plant forms and references to landscape, symbolically exploring the conflict between the manmade and natural worlds. The artist’s vision is inspired by the experience of coming of age as an artist and young woman while living in the Bahamas during her formative years. Integrity of line and composition form the armature of her work. Her palette is infused with the light and colors of the subtropics. By offering her paintings as a visual refuge, Frances seeks to extol the fragility and beauty of nature, attempting to preserve it, if only in two dimensions.
Megan Frances
@MeganFrancesArt
Elana Kundell merges inner and outer landscape along with form and formlessness, conveying the essence of life through luminous shapeshifting color in her lyrical abstract oil paintings. Open-ended, atmospheric and layered through an intuitive practice that incorporates motion and erasure, her paintings synthesize memory, sensation, and an appreciation for the natural world. Through investigating the instability, relationships and emotional immediacy of color, the artist explores our connections with nature and each other. An Artist-In-Residence at Studio Channel Islands in Camarillo, California, Kundell has exhibited at the Carnegie Art Museum in Oxnard, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) Artists Gallery, and in galleries in California and Korea.
Elana Kundell
@elanakundell