- Title
- Gray Memories
- Date Made
- 2009
- Medium
- Mixed media
- Dimensions
- Mount: 37 1/2 x 28 7/8 in. (95.25 x 73.34 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.2011.121
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Contemporary
- Curatorial Notes
Greater Los Angeles is home to the largest population of Iranians outside of Iran. Among the smaller group that collects art, Mahmood Sabzi has been the Iranian-American artist of choice. This work with its traditional Persian gold-illuminated borders surrounding charred gray squares, reflects the artist's mixed memories of Iran, which he left in the early 1980s, following combat service in the Iran-Iraq war. Sabzi's best works to date are his more personal pieces such as this.
