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Lizzy Vartanian Collier

Lizzy Vartanian Collier is a London-based writer and curator. She runs the Gallery Girl website (www.gallerygirl.co) and has written for Canvas, the Guardian, Harper's Bazaar Arabia, Ibraaz, Jdeed, ReOrient, Suitcase, Tribe, Vice Arabia and Vogue Arabia.

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A Sudanese Printmaker Radiates Light From Darkness

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier March 31, 2020March 31, 2020

Mohammad Omar Khalil, whose work often draws inspiration from his homeland, calls black “the richest medium, the richest color for me in all printmaking.”

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Looking at Textiles Through Women’s Collecting Practices

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier March 20, 2020March 20, 2020

Encompassing both private and public collections, Unbound represents a range of collecting practices and asserts the artistic, cultural, and social importance of textiles.

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An Artist Paints Love and Life in Maputo, Mozambique

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier February 27, 2020February 27, 2020

Drawn from archival photographs, memories, and imagination, Cassi Namoda’s family portraits emanate warmth and comfort.

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Pre-Raphaelite Women Don’t Quite Get Their Due

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier January 15, 2020January 14, 2020

While Pre-Raphaelite Sisters does write the female characters of the Pre-Raphaelite era into art history, it falls short by relegating these talented artists to the roles of lover and muse.

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From Yemen to the Netherlands, a Photographer Focuses on Migration and Statelessness

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier January 13, 2020January 13, 2020

With her project, The Passport, Thana Faroq documents the lives not just of stateless individuals, but also her own escaping conflict and later settling abroad.

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Painting Home, When It Won’t Let You Stay

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier November 28, 2019November 28, 2019

In her first major solo show in London, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami’s paintings recall the all too familiar diasporic experience of being foreign in both places you call home.

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A Transformative Art Festival Is Mounted Again in the Breakaway Republic of Karabakh

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier October 4, 2019October 9, 2019

In October 2018 Anna Kamay created the first ever contemporary arts festival, Artsakh Fest, in Stepanakert. Now she returns to restage it with a new theme and approach.

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A Conversation with Rose Issa, Champion of Artists From the Middle East

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier September 11, 2019September 11, 2019

On the eve of her exhibition at the new Middle East Institute Gallery, Issa talks about her decades-long curatorial career, the shifting infrastructure for artists in the region, and the need for memory and archives.

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Challenging Stereotypes by Contorting the Female Form

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier September 9, 2019September 10, 2019

Hayv Kahraman’s paintings compel viewers to acknowledge the potential pleasure of viewing contorted bodies in a position of pain.

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Exposing Ghosts of the Past, Michael Rakowitz Pulls Back the Curtain

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier August 13, 2019March 16, 2020

Throughout his career, Rakowitz has been making artful reconstructions of lost heritage.

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A Chronicle of 100 Contemporary Artists Who Use Textiles

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier July 8, 2019June 14, 2022

With artists spanning all corners of the globe, Vitamin T is a timely contribution to dismantling the division between art and craft.

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How Mohamed Melehi Helped Forge a Colorful, Moroccan Form of Modernism

Avatar photo by Lizzy Vartanian Collier June 14, 2019June 13, 2019

New Waves at the Mosaic Rooms illustrates how Melehi’s painted waves spread across Morocco to create a cultural scene that celebrated tradition.

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