After getting my second MFA, this time in Visual Arts: New Forms from Pratt Institute, I began exploring art quilts, illustration, animation, installations and film. My artwork has been exhibited at Schafler Gallery, Toy Theatre Exhibits, Great Small Works, Art in General, Galapagos Art Space, NYC, and in an animated segment for the film “The Pink House.” Artist residencies include The Vermont Studio Center and Wildacres Artist Residency.
DRAWINGS
Everyday Oddities: An illustrated Year
by Leyla Modirzadeh
Everyday Oddities is a witty visual diary depicting everyday moments through a dreamlike, at times irreverent, lens. Brimming with bright hand-drawn illustrations that explore a range of emotions from childlike playfulness to painful reality, this collection of unusual drawings, cartoons, and haikus celebrates life in all its quirky glory. On each page, Everyday Oddities invites readers to tease the wonder from their days and enter into Leyla’s off-kilter, idiosyncratic world.
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by Leyla Modirzadeh
Everyday Oddities is a witty visual diary depicting everyday moments through a dreamlike, at times irreverent, lens. Brimming with bright hand-drawn illustrations that explore a range of emotions from childlike playfulness to painful reality, this collection of unusual drawings, cartoons, and haikus celebrates life in all its quirky glory. On each page, Everyday Oddities invites readers to tease the wonder from their days and enter into Leyla’s off-kilter, idiosyncratic world.
Please click here to order: Indiebound, Barnes and Noble, and Amazon.
“Like a kaleidoscopic tin of curiously strong mints for the imagination . . . Delightful!”
—Dr. Bryan Smyth, author of Merleau-Ponty’s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy
“Leyla Modirzadeh's work is imaginative, witty, and colorful, with a view of the world all her own . . . This book of art is a breath of fresh air.”
—Ping Chong, playwright, theater director, and video artist
Leyla Modirzadeh’s Everyday Oddities stops time with elegant imaginaries everyday magic, and intermittent disquiet."
—Dr. Paul Austerlitz, author of Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity
—Dr. Bryan Smyth, author of Merleau-Ponty’s Existential Phenomenology and the Realization of Philosophy
“Leyla Modirzadeh's work is imaginative, witty, and colorful, with a view of the world all her own . . . This book of art is a breath of fresh air.”
—Ping Chong, playwright, theater director, and video artist
Leyla Modirzadeh’s Everyday Oddities stops time with elegant imaginaries everyday magic, and intermittent disquiet."
—Dr. Paul Austerlitz, author of Jazz Consciousness: Music, Race, and Humanity
INSTALLATIONS
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In July 2023, I created an interactive immersive installation called "Heartbreak Hang" in Spoleto, Italy.
Viewers were invited to write their losses and heart breaks on pieces paper which were then attached to red twine weighted down by stones. The wind moved them while Abby Lincoln's "Throw It Away" played. |
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