Asia Society Texas Announces Vian Sora's First U.S. Solo Museum Exhibition: Outerworlds
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Asia Society Texas announces "Vian Sora: Outerworlds," the first U.S. solo museum exhibition for Iraqi-born abstract painter Vian Sora. The multi-venue mid-career survey, organized jointly with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Speed Art Museum, assembles major works from the past decade that channel Sora's life experiences, ancient Mesopotamian history, and Iraq's landscapes through multilayered abstract painting.
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Organized jointly with the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and the Speed Art Museum, the exhibition assembles major works charting Sora's artistic development over the past decade.
Outerworlds is her first solo museum exhibition in the United States and explores how her multilayered paintings abstractly channel the tumultuous events of her life, ancient Mesopotamian history, and Iraq's diverse landscapes.
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