Biography

Aylene Fallah was born in Iran. In the early eighties her and her family immigrated to the U.S., where she has been living ever since. In 1998, she graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University with a bachelor in sculpture and a minor in painting. Aylene's mix media sculptures have been exhibited in shows and galleries in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland, Boston, Canada, Chicago, California, Florida, New York and New Jersey. Select TV interviews, radio interviews, biographies and art reviews have been written about her and her work. Aylene uses her duel perspective as an Iranian-American as a starting point to explore issues of gender, culture, religion, war, history and identity relating to her Persian roots.

Artist Statement

“If we really think that home is elsewhere and that life is a wondering to find home,
why should we not look forward to the arrival?”

C.S. Lewis

Objects referring to a moment, a time, a place. Home is remembered, forgotten, and recalled again slowly, through small objects, tangible enough to fill the space between thoughts and memories.

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