Artist: Mariam Aziza Stephan | Location: Greensboro, NC
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Mariam Aziza Stephan
Greensboro, NC
Mariam Aziza Stephan is a first generation Afghan-American painter using landscape to explore themes of loss. Landscapes reflect what we value or squander, they can embody states of psychological, political, and environmental upheaval. Stephan's landscapes do not represent a single place rather an aggregate of sites of ravagement, destruction, or respite. She use landscape and abstraction as metaphors of deracination tied to both involuntary and voluntary migration, disempowerment, and social and environmental degradation. Just as in Francisco Goya's ìDisasters of Warî etchings, it is not the war that is so unsettling but rather the visible effects on the flesh and the manifest inner psyche of individuals. Stephan has received awards including the 2018 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship, a 2010-11 Fulbright Scholar to Egypt, and currently serves as Professor in Painting at UNC Greensboro.
Artist Website
www.mariamstephan.com