Untitled

Size: 22 x 31

Medium: Acrylic on Textile

Latifa Noorzai, a native Farsi speaker and immigrant to the United States, quickly established her studio practice at Creative Growth despite communication and cultural navigation obstacles. Noorzai’s tenacity is demonstrated in her bold portrait paintings inspired by a plethora of source material. Her strong and stark outlines, rendered with immediacy, provide a loose structure for the heavy and confident brush strokes that permeate her figures with dynamic expression and presence. A master of color, Noorzai paints figures that are, like herself, bright, mercurial, and undaunted by the gaze of others. Noorzai’s work is included in Hannah Rieger’s permanent Art Brut Collection and was nominated for the Outsider Art Fair’s Art Absolument Award in 2019.

Creative Growth / Oakland, CA