Your Land, 2020
oil on canvas
42 x 30 inches
Your Land is the title of Aynaz Parkas’s oil painting created for Recursion, the School for Contemporary Art’s 2020 BFA project at the Audain Gallery. The theme of the exhibition was the relationship of contemporary art practice to ideas of artistic influence, the circulation of references, and practices of translation and citation. Parkas cited the surrealist paintings of Kay Sage in technique and palette while in content, referenced the Photographs of Kurdistan’s armed struggle against ISIS by Joey Lawrence, We came from fire.