Tannaz Farsi is an interdisciplinary artist whose spatial work explores the contingencies in the translation of meaning between object, image, and text in order to question the nature of memory and the changing role of the individual in environments of displacement. Her work has been exhibited widely across the United States, acknowledged with awards and creative research grants. Farsi serves as an associate professor of art at the University of Oregon.
Discipline:
Visual Art – installation
Tannaz Farsi
Discipline:
Visual Art – installation
Region: Eugene, OR
MacDowell Fellowships: 2011
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Studios
Heinz
Tannaz Farsi worked in the Heinz studio.
The icehouse, built of fieldstone in 1914–1915, was a practical part of Marian MacDowell’s plan for a self-sufficient farm. Winter ice cut from a nearby pond was stored here for summer use on the property. Idle since 1940, it was a handsome but outdated farm building. In 1995, Mrs. Drue Heinz, a vice chairman…