Fine Arts
I have been a photorealistic oil painter based in San Francisco, CA for the past four years. My work depicts the intersection between inorganic and organic surfaces to explore sexuality, power structures, and modern-day femininity. Two of my pieces were exhibited in San Francisco’s de Young Museum from October 2020 to January 2021. I also recently debuted my first solo exhibition, “Covet: Trophies in an Age of Artifice” in Menlo Park at Art Ventures Gallery from April to May 2021.
"Gag Order", Oil on Canvas, 60"x42", 2018.
"Deflowering", Oil on Canvas, 36"x36", 2021.
"Honey Child", Oil on Canvas, 48"x36", 2021.
"Fountain", Oil on Canvas, 36"x60", 2019.
"Mother's Milk", Oil on Canvas, 48"x36", 2021.
"Prize", Oil on Canvas, 72"x48", 2021.
"Sweet Thing", Oil on Canvas, 48"x48", 2021.
“We, as a society, consume images at an extremely high volume. With that amount of content saturation comes a lack of feasible curation of what shapes and filters these images are fed through. Now, more than ever before, young people need to develop a critical eye to scrutinize the media they’re consuming.
We are, more or less, ambling through the shadows in each and every portal we interact with, and this repeat exposure to unrealistic figures and to inauthentic, profit-driven expectations rapidly forms a distorted lens through which to view beauty and self-expression.
As long as our culture continues down this image-obsessed path, I want young adults to be equipped as savvy consumers.”
— Arianna Tamaddon, interviewed by Cherie Dawn Haas for Realism Today
