About
Farwah Rizvi was born in Lahore, Pakistan and lives in Queens, NY. She uses her imagination to experiment with a wide array of mediums and a rich milieu of expressions; her practice includes water-based art on the one hand and oil paintings on the other.
Based heavily on the story telling mode, Rizvi's paintings surface on wood, paper, linen and cotton canvas, silk, glass etc. Her work, which draws inspiration from Persian,Indian and Mughal miniatures, predominantly revolves around the notion of demons and what they represent to each one of us, therefore creating an experience that is interpreted at the viewers' own level of reality. Rizvi plays with the visual tradition's scale, imagery, medium, and context to create a transformative sense of cohesion through juxtaposition. In almost all her artwork, her ex-husband is shown as her “Muse." This is perhaps a way to express her deepest darkest desires which she might not be able to address openly or it is also likely that she sometimes uses the image of him to simply draw wit and humor in her works. However, the prominence of Rizvi's work is shown in the way she manages to achieve confluence between two completely different and unique cultures by taking elements from the two and placing them together in a single frame.
