{"id":12611,"date":"2015-05-26T02:16:41","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T02:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-conversation-with-persian-american-safa\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T17:26:59","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T00:26:59","slug":"a-conversation-with-persian-american-safa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-conversation-with-persian-american-safa\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-12611 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/a-conversation-with-persian-american-safa\/attachment\/12612\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_noxqbtAR7E1qbup7mo1_1280-100x100.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A conversation with Persian-American Safa Samiezad\u00e9-Yazd \u2014 a local artist who\u2019s worked on a national level for Aslan Media and Boomgen Studios \u2014 first opened Eric Dallimore\u2019s eyes to the unique position of her culture-straddling compatriots in America: Iranian-American artists struggle not only with their mixed cultural identity, but also with the question of whether that\u2019s a theme they should pursue in their work. Dallimore definitely encouraged the latter, and he and Eric Nord, his co-director at Leon Gallery, have teamed up with Samiezad\u00e9-Yazd to curate Continental Divide: East of L.A. \/ West of Tehran, a show they hope to stage at the gallery beginning July 18 \u2014 a date that happens to coincide with the 2015 Biennial of the Americas.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.westword.com\/arts\/east-meets-west-leon-gallery-crowdfunds-to-bring-a-persian-american-perspective-to-the-biennial-conversation-6737718\">Leon Gallery Crowdfunds for Continental Divide | Westword<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>The image above is from one of the works in the show, a piece by my colleague and friend Laleh Mehran. Click through for a video prospectus of the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A conversation with Persian-American Safa Samiezad\u00e9-Yazd \u2014 a local artist who\u2019s worked on a national level for Aslan Media and Boomgen Studios \u2014 first opened Eric Dallimore\u2019s eyes to the unique position of her culture-straddling compatriots in America: Iranian-American artists struggle not only with their mixed cultural identity, but also with the question of whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-3hp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12613,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12611\/revisions\/12613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}