Kavi Gupta Gallery
Skip to main content
  • Menu
  • Artists
  • Exhibitions
  • News
  • Viewing Room
  • Editions
  • Events & Art Fairs
  • Public Works
  • Podcast
  • Information
  • Mission
Menu

Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain : Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA

Past exhibition
3 August - 22 October 2023
  • Overview
  • Installation Views
  • Videos
Overview
Arghavan Khosravi, Black Rain, 2021. Acrylic and cement on cotton canvas wrapped over shaped wood panel, wood cutout, elastic cord. Image courtesy of artist.
Arghavan Khosravi, Black Rain, 2021. Acrylic and cement on cotton canvas wrapped over shaped wood panel, wood cutout, elastic cord. Image courtesy of artist.

Arghavan Khosravi: Black Rain presents a comprehensive survey of drawings, paintings, and sculptural reliefs, by the Iranian artist Arghavan Khosravi (b. 1984). The exhibition traces the trajectory of her oeuvre—from small-scale drawings produced upon her arrival in the United States in 2015 to recent monumental compositions, straddling painting and sculpture.

 

Khosravi imbues her work with personal experiences as a young woman living under an oppressive Iranian regime and as a Muslim immigrant living in the United States. Her visual vocabulary is also directly inspired by Persian miniatures, particularly their architectural and geometrical forms, battle scenes, and images of flora and fauna. A selection of miniatures will be on display in dialogue with Khosravi’s work, illustrating the impact on the artist’s iconography.

Poetic and enigmatic, Khosravi’s work conveys narratives of repression, bondage, and the silencing of women’s voices yet is distilled with a quiet agency that undercuts Western notions of the oppressed Muslim woman.

 

 

 

  • Rose Art Museum
Share
  • Facebook
  • X
  • Pinterest
  • Tumblr
  • Email
Installation Views
  • View 17
  • View 34
  • View 5
  • View 16
  • View 24
  • View 14
  • View 19
  • View 27 1
  • View 40
  • View 35
  • View 28
  • View 36
Videos
  • Artist Talk with Arghavan Khosravi

    Artist Talk with Arghavan Khosravi

    Rose Art Museum In conversation with Dr. Gannit Ankori, Henry and Lois Foster Director and Chief Curator, artist Arghavan Khosravi discusses her subversion of the oppressed Muslim woman through her enigmatic works that... Read more

Related artist

  • Arghavan Khosravi

    Arghavan Khosravi

Back to exhibitions

Contact: +1  708-480-2882

General Inquiries: info@kavigupta.com

Media Inquiries: media@kavigupta.com

Client & Sales Inquiries: client@kavigupta.com

Publications: Kavi Gupta Editions

Facebook Twitter Instagram Newsletter

Kavi Gupta Washington Blvd

835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago, IL 60607

Hours | Tue–Fri: 11 am–6 pm, Sat: 12 pm–5 pm

Kavi Gupta Elizabeth St

219 N. Elizabeth St. Chicago, IL 60607 
Hours | By appointment only

 

 

Kavi Gupta Warehouse

2108 S. California Ave. Chicago, IL 60608

Kavi Gupta New Buffalo

215 E. Buffalo St. #219 New Buffalo, MI 49117

Instagram, opens in a new tab.
Artsy, opens in a new tab.
Join the mailing list
View on Google Maps
Ocula, opens in a new tab.
Manage cookies
2025 Kavi Gupta
Site by Artlogic

This website uses cookies
This site uses cookies to help make it more useful to you. Please contact us to find out more about our Cookie Policy.

Manage cookies
Accept

Cookie preferences

Check the boxes for the cookie categories you allow our site to use

Cookie options
Required for the website to function and cannot be disabled.
Improve your experience on the website by storing choices you make about how it should function.
Allow us to collect anonymous usage data in order to improve the experience on our website.
Allow us to identify our visitors so that we can offer personalised, targeted marketing.
Save preferences