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COMMON GROUND ARTIST AZADEH HUSSAINI ENGAGES VIEWERS IN VISUAL CONVERSATIONS WITH HER ART. BY ALLISON DUNCAN THE NORTH SHORE WEEKEND
Chicago-based Iranian-American artist Azadeh Hussaini first discovered her passion for artistry as a teen. She received what she describes as “informal training” from her father Reza Hossaini, a prolific Tehran-based painter whose work blends the line between classicism and modernism and has been featured in more than 50 solo and group exhibitions, who gave Hussaini art classes in his studio during the summer. “At 13, I didn’t think I would ever be an artist,” says Hussaini. “I wanted to be an actress and directed a short play at school. My father told me, ‘This is not a career for your future.’ I realized painting is something I could truly connect to. It was my language for that age.” She earned her BFA in painting from Azad Art University in Iran then moved to the United States to obtain her MFA in non-figurative painting from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She’s been working full-time as a practicing artist ever since, and her work has been displayed in numerous solo and group exhibitions in both the U.S. and Iran. Hussaini utilizes myriad mediums to explore her emotional responses to her own experiences while, at the same time, attempting to understand the basic primordial desires within the human condition. She aspires to discover commonalities among us while providing forums for open discussion and social assertiveness. While she once considered herself a painter, Hussaini now uses a paperfocused medium that combines layers Continued on PG 18
Azadeh Hussaini with her work Extrusion PHOTOGRAPHY BY ROBIN SUBAR