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Amir H. Fallah lives and works in Los Angeles. He founded Beautiful/Decay, a definitive art and design publication showcasing emerging and established contemporary artists, when he was sixteen years old and has seen it go from a black and white zine to an internationally distributed colourful publication.
From framed miniatures on paper, to large scale canvases, murals and life size hand-constructed forts, Fallah's works lie between the amorphous painterly blobs of a Philip Guston and the flashy candy coated gloss of computer generated illustrations.
More recently, his paintings have delved deeper into a history of landscape painting with a Californian twist. Rainbow colored retro borders frame Grand Canyon-esque sceneries peppered with collaged Arnold Shwarzeneggers and minutely painted forts. These sometimes surreal concoctions often depict dream-like worlds as imagined references to the artist’s memories of boyhood.
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I Put You On A Pedestal (07), 2008, Acrylic, watercolor, collage, ink, pencil on paper mounted to canvas, 152.4 x 121.9 cm |
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