Armita Raafat | TRACES AND SILENCES
High Noon Gallery
124 Forsyth St.
Reception: September 8th, 5 - 8 PM
Though not specifically autobiographical, Traces and Silences as a whole carries the authority of someone whose aesthetic sensibility has been shaped by a continuous inquiry of what it means to exist between two cultures with a complex ideological tension. Raafat’s ability to visually articulate ambiguity within the system she has developed welcomes the viewer’s projections free of didactic influence.
EFA Studio Member Armita Raafat is a New York-based sculptor and installation artist. Born in Chicago and raised in Iran, she earned a BFA from Al-Zahra University in Tehran and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the MCA Chicago, the Bronx Museum of the Arts, the Children’s Museum of Manhattan, the Noyes Museum of Art, New Jersey; Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York; Dorsky Gallery, New York; Art in Buildings; New York and Florida; HORSEANDPONY Fine Arts, Berlin; and Al-Zahra University, Tehran. Raafat received the Peter S. Reed Foundation grant for Sculpture and a NYFA fellowship for Crafts/Sculpture. She has been in residence at LMCC Swing Space, AIM at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, Winter Workspace at Wave Hill, and Workspace Program at Dieu Donné. Her work has been written about in publications such as Art in America, the Brooklyn Rail, artcritical, and others. She currently has a studio with the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts in New York.