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Tala Madani: Smoke and Mirrors - The Brooklyn Rail

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Tala Madani is a young, Iranian-born artist who has lived in the United States for seven years. Her painterly style is delicate, adroit, and agile, persistently on the verge of an attenuated hedonism; yet, at the same time, her message is simple and to the point, straight from the pit of Poe’s pendulum.

Word count: 766 Paragraphs: 6 Lombard-Fried Projects February 23 – April 7, 2007 Tala Madani is a young, Iranian-born artist who has lived in the United States for seven years. Her painterly style is delicate, adroit, and agile, persistently on the verge of an attenuated hedonism; yet, at the same time, her message is simple and to the point, straight from the pit of Poe’s pendulum. The surreal, antagonistic gestures of her male protagonists are less literal than imagined—perhaps related to what the artist observed or imagined while growing up in a politically conflicted Middle Eastern country

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