H.K. (Habib Kheradyar) Zamani ’s new paintings, sculpture and video continue the artist’s investigations of material, substance, form and function that began with his Fabric and Armature paintings and objects from 1993 through 2003. Shelter from the Storm will include several new paintings that uses as its subject a geodesic dome surrounded by planetary eclipses, densely painted with almost mirrorlike silver chrome paint.

Starting with the installation/performance from 2003, EDIFICE/OEDIPUS, the use of a fabric covered dome, Zamani’s long personal interest with Buckminster Fuller’s signature architectural invention becomes a metaphor for tent-like references for private space and pays homage to the 1960s’ when alternative life styles sought out alternative means for shelter. These forms were first used for performative interactions, and in late 2004 became the subject matter for contemplations in a variety of traditional media.

Shelter from the Storm brings together works that explore the artist’s return to traditional painting utilizing two and three-dimensional forms to convey both the exterior and interior space that occupy the need and desire for relief and transcendence. This is the artist first solo exhibition with SolwayJones.

H.K. Zamani has exhibited at Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Austria, Hohenthal und Bergen, Germany, Pierogi Gallery, New York, Kampa Museum, Czech Republic, and LINC, San Francisco. He was awarded a C.O.L.A. grant in 2004 and a California Foundation Grant in 2005.

H.K. (Habib Kheradyar) Zamani, born in Tehran, Iran, lives and works in Los Angeles.