Talk:Shiva Ahmadi

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Career

Shiva Ahmadi’s artistic practice embraces drawing and painting, particularly a rare expertise in watercolor, across 2D and 3D media and moving images. Her work explores contemporary conundrums between the historically refined aesthetics and cultural conceits of the Middle East with the violence, corruption and uncertainties wrought not only upon local societies but the whole world by malicious, global potentates. She works with vibrant figures transposed from Iranian and Indian book-painting, as well as pleasing patterns, to create sometimes sly and often manifest themes of brutishness and mindless self-regard within abstracted land and cityscapes. Ahmadi’s consistent explorations emanate from the loneliness of a terrified child during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-88) and the gallantry of a mature artist who wishes to bear witness to the global costs of greed resulting from ceaseless competition for power and control. The wry themes of her early work, however, have given way to an urgency reflecting the current state of accelerated calamity brought by new wars, genocide, and displacements of entire cities of people seeking basic shelter, safety and stability.

In 2016 she was awarded the ‘Anonymous Was A Woman’ Award and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. A new monograph of her work was published by Skira in Spring 2017. Her work is represented in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Morgan Library, Asia Society Museum, New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Farjam Collection, Dubai, and the TDIC Corporate Collection, Abu Dhabi.

http://arts.ucdavis.edu/faculty-profile/shiva-ahmadi

— Preceding unsigned comment added by Meeloart (talk • contribs)
 * This has been moved from the user's Talk page. All comments should be made here instead. Thank you. jd22292 (Jalen D. Folf) (talk) 06:38, 26 August 2017 (UTC)
 * Hi Meeloart, and welcome to Wikipedia. I am afraid I cannot simply replace Wikipedia's version of this article with Shiva Ahmadi's profile on the UC Davis website. For one thing, Wikipedia does not have permission to reuse that biography. Wikipedia is an open-source project: we are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License, which permits our readers to reuse our text for whatever purpose they desire. As a result, copyrighted text for which we lack permission to reuse is incompatible with our free license, and cannot be included in our articles except under extremely limited circumstances as detailed in the Non-free content policy. If you or your organization holds the copyright to your proposed text and is willing to release it under a free license, it is possible to grant Wikipedia permission for reuse by following the instructions at Declaration of consent for all enquiries. But in this case, it appears to me that almost all the information on the UC Davis profile is already contained in Wikipedia's article. Therefore, it would be better to modify the Wikipedia version incrementally. If there are errors in Shiva Ahmadi's Wikipedia article, or important omissions, please point them out specifically and I will be happy to work with you to improve this page. Altamel (talk) 01:52, 27 August 2017 (UTC)