Nomad (Group Show)

Public Art Exhibition Curated by The Torrance Art Museum

The Torrance Art Museum (TAM) hosts, Nomad — 2021’s premier summer art event and the biggest pop-up of contemporary art in SoCal history featuring over 450 local artists.

Nomad was a one-weekend-only pop-up event for artists, by artists, to reforge our connections to each other in real life and to make new friends in the process. It is for our audiences to once again commune with us through our practices. It is for curators and gallerists to catch up with what artists have been doing in their studios over the isolating year that was 2020. We are committed to coming together to witness the power and value of engaging with art in person.

Nomad features over 450 artists in 87,000 sq ft of raw commercial real estate in the Del Amo Crossing, a mid-century modern building in Torrance, CA. The former medical office building will showcase five floors dedicated to works of all media types and disciplines.

(Explore the works shown in the exhibition below :)

The works exhibited at Nomad, explore complexities in material construction and artistic processes around reclaimed & recycled materials. Sourcing language exclusively from tourist-authored letters on vintage postcards, these art objects contemplate the experience of a landscape throughout time. Collectively these pieces examine the notion of legacy as an inherent construction of foreign perspectives.

Looking back on these, sometimes century-old, materials I try to bring an inherent shift in context by using my own cultural reference points to trace the history of bodies that once inhabited the city I was born into. As a first generation American raised by immigrants, this endeavor has served as reverence for my family’s journey to Los Angeles from Iran, and frames the context of my experiences in an endlessly discoverable landscape.

Ranging from colloquial satire to art historical innuendo, these artworks capture a wide range of conceptual threads and reflect on my creative process, anxieties, & artistic influences.

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