Nazafarin Lotfi
Nazafarin Lotfi was born in Mashhad, Iran in 1984. She is an artist and educator living and working between Tucson, Arizona and Chicago, Illinois. Her multi-disciplinary approach studies how the self and notions of identity formation are understood in relationship to architecture, landscape, space, and place exploring humanness and practices of map-making and gardening. Her prints, drawings, and sculpture were featured in a solo exhibition at University Galleries in 2022, Nazafarin Lotfi: A Garden to Build .
Background
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2011)
Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (2009)
BFA, University of Tehran (2007)
Co-founder, Stew-dio Visit artist-collective based in Tucson, AZ
Normal Editions Projects
Lotfi participated in a collaborative print project at Normal Editions as part of the Visiting Artist Seminar in the School of Art at Illinois State University, September 2-October 2, 2019.
Prints from Normal Editions
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Nazafarin Lotfithree-color lithograph
19" x 14"
edition size: 30
copyright 2020
N.E.W. work # 19-103
Available for sale
$500.00Purchase Print
Collaboration with Nazafarin Lotfi
inspecting the drawings on mylar over the light table
Morgan Price, Nazafarin Lotfi, and Halie Hugenberg inspect the drawings at the light table
mixing ink colors
Nazafarin Lotfi, Halie Hugenberg, and Morgan Price working with color inks to mix the colors desired for several plates
sponging
Nicole Arnold ready to sponge the plate with water on the lithography press
rolling on ink
Morgan Price rolls ink on to the plate on the lithography press
reviewing color trial proofs
Nazafarin Lotfi and Morgan Price reviewing the color trial proofs at the stage including runs one and two
inspecting proofs
Nazafarin Lotfi inspects the first color trial proof to include all three layers of ink with Peytin Fitzgerald
discussing color trial proof impressions
Nazafarin Lotfi and Morgan Price discuss the progress of the color trial proofing session with fresh impressions
selected impression
Peytin Fitzgerald, Erika Shiba, Nazafarin Lotfi, Morgan Price, Sarah Smelser, and Veda Rives Aukerman celebrating the signed Right to Print impression for the edition.