Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh (born 1985 in Oklahoma City ) is a contemporary American painter , street artist, and illustrator .

life and work

Tatyana Fazlalizadeh grew up in an Iranian - Afro-American family in Oklahoma. She studied at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and graduated in 2007 with a degree in art. In her work she focuses on classic portrait painting, which she combines with political and social issues. She received her first public attention with her oil portraits of Barack Obama , which were shown in the 2009 exhibition Manifest Hope: DC, curated by Shepard Fairey , for the inauguration of Obama in Washington, DC . The book Art For Obama was published for the exhibition, including Fazlalizadeh's picture Is he Black enough? as an ironic commentary on the racism debate. From 2012 to 2013 Tatyana Fazlalizadeh was one of the artists of the two-year Roots Mural Art Project , who jointly realized a painting collage on a huge house wall on behalf of the City of Philadelphia. The mural, entitled Legendary, tells stories from the life of the hip-hop band The Roots , which formed in Philadelphia in 1987.

Street art project Stop Telling Women to Smile

In 2012, Tatyana Fazlalizadeh started her street art project Stop Telling Women to Smile in Brooklyn , where she addresses the sexual harassment of women on the street. First of all, she wanted to express her own experiences. In interviews with women about the " catcalling " (call after / pitch pipes) told her many that they made it through the sexual comments on the road to objects and demoralized felt. Fazlalizadeh transformed these feelings and images into a large public art project. She photographed the women, drew black and white portraits of the photos and converted them into larger-than-life posters with statements from the women such as My outfit is not an invitation , Women are not outside for your entertainment or My Name is not Baby , which she put on with paste Outside walls stuck. She created the first posters with self-portraits and the slogan of the Stop Telling Women to Smile campaign .

With the pictures she wants to give women a strong presence in an environment in which they often feel insecure and uncomfortable. Tatyana Fazlalizadeh's work provoked a real dialogue about how women are perceived and treated in public spaces, Katherine Brooks found in the Huffington Post . Fazlalizadeh mainly portrays non-white women. What was not initially intended became the subject of their work. She felt that speaking out about sexual harassment was dominated by white women. Since she is a black woman herself, it was important for her to bring her face and voice into this conversation.

She showed her posters in the streets of Brooklyn and Philadelphia. In September 2013, she launched a campaign on the Kickstarter.com website to interview more women across the country and expand the campaign. The poster series has since appeared in Washington , Boston , Chicago , Los Angeles , San Francisco , Baltimore , Atlanta, and Georgia .

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2014: Stop Telling Women to Smile (solo show), Betti Ono Gallery, Oakland

  My Name Is Not “Baby”! , together with Noah Sow, Kunstfestival 48 Stunden Neukölln , Berlin

• 2012: The Roots Mural Project: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh Exhibition , Mural Arts Program, Philadelphia

Group exhibitions

• 2014: Painted Portraits , Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
• 2012: Visions of Our 44th President , Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, Detroit

  Backlash , SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY

  Dialogues: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Annette Isham and Helina Metaferia , International Visions Gallery, Washington

  H (A) UNTED , Caribbean Cultural Center, African Diaspora Institute, New York

• 2011: Do You Hear Us , Papillion Institute of Art, Los Angeles

  Arrivals / Departures: Women's Experience of Migration Under Globalization , Project Reach Gallery, New York

  Dirty Sensibilities: A 21st Century Exploration of the New American Black South , Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute, New York City

• 2009: Manifest Hope: DC , Irvine Contemporary Gallery, Washington, DC

Books

• Anna Holmes: The Book of Jezebel. An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Lady Things (with illustrations by Tatyana Fazlalizadeh), New York / Boston 2013

Web links

• Personal website
• Stop telling women to smile
• Fazlalizadeh, Tatyana. Exhibitions, in: African American Visual Artists Database
• Tatyana Fazlalizadeh on street harassment: 'stop telling women to smile' , Video Interview , The Guardian , August 7, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ^ Shepard Fairey, Jennifer Gross: Art For Obama. Designing Manifest Hope and the Campaign for Change , Harry N. Abrams 2009, ISBN 978-0-8109-8498-1 (exhibition catalog), p. 36
2. ↑ Philip Kennicott, 'Art for Obama' book is full of political hollowness, not hope , The Washington Post , October 25, 2009
3. ^ For the Roots' official mural, things come together , Philadelphia Weekly, May 29, 2013
4. ↑ The Roots' Philadelphia Mural to be Unveiled May 31 , Paste Magazine, May 23, 2013
5. ↑ Miriam Coleman: Philadelphia Pays Tribute to the Roots With a Massive Mural , Rolling Stone, July 2, 2013
6. ↑ Hey Stranger, Stop Telling Me To Smile. A Brooklyn artist takes on street harassment in a clever portrait series that's spreading across America , The Daily Beast, August 1, 2013 ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Felicia R. Lee: An Artist Demands Civility on the Street With Grit and Buckets of Paste , The New York Times , Art & Design, April 9, 2014
8. ↑ Emanuella Grinberg: Street art project wants you to 'stop telling women to smile' , CNN , April 8, 2014
9. ↑ ^{a b} Katherine Brooks: Fighting Harassment Against Women With Beautiful Street Art , The Huffington Post, Arts & Culture, 2014
10. ^ Sarah Shearman: Stop telling women to 'smile': New York street art says it how it is , The Daily Telegraph , Feb. 24, 2014
11. ^ Katherine Brooks: Public Art Project Addresses Gender-Based Street Harassment In A Big Way , The Huffington Post, October 26, 2013
12. ↑ Tatyana Fazlalizadeh, Art & Exhibition , 48 hours Neukölln. The art festival, 27.-29. June 2014
13. ↑ Philli 360 , April 20, 2012 ${\displaystyle \mathrm {^{\circ }} }$
14. ↑ ArtSlant