Tepe Gawra

Bortolami is pleased to announce Tepe Gawra, the first solo exhibition at the gallery by acclaimed painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad, Iraq; based in Louisville, Kentucky). Sora is best known for vivid paintings in which pools of aqueous color jell into expressive compositions beset with sharp contours and subtle gradient shifts. Though her imagery is non-representational, there are fragments of figuration and text embedded in her works which allude to mythologies and histories of the ancient and contemporary world. It is the artist's first exhibition of new works since opening her traveling museum survey show last year.