Aphrodite Désirée Navab - Goddess Rising: Black & Blue

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17

5 - 8 PM

@RIVAA Gallery

Aphrodite Navab received her BA magna cum laude in Visual Arts from Harvard College and her Ed.D in Art Education from Columbia University. Through her art and activism, Navab mines her Iranian and Greek heritage, calling forth its competing histories, myths, and politics and tracing its impact on her personal identity. It is in the process of Navab’s art that she relocates her place between Iran, Greece and the United States.

Her latest series, “Goddess Rising: Black & Blue,” (2024-present) consists of performance art monoprints with marks made by the artist’s own body and personal belongings. Navab takes on her native city Isfahan’s ancient textile tradition of Ghalamkar (Farsi for pen and ink work). Using woodblocks to stamp the foundational pattern of her childhood, Navab immerses it in blue and black ink, adding layers and layers for the years…