A curated selection of Zadeh’s current explorations — works that capture the questions and themes shaping her present practice.
Installation, 2025
Mixed Media: Wood, Oil, Glass, Resin,
What-if
What-If holds you in that suspended moment where passion meets risk — the moment before the leap, when you know it could break you, yet choose it anyway.
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Within the Hourglass
Mix Media: Canvas, Oil, Thread, 30”x30”, 2025
Within the Hourglass explores the slow liberation of aging, tracing a stitched path from expectation to emergence. Its spiral leads from inherited rules and unspoken obligations into the loosening of questions and the breath of freedom.
Within the Hourglass will be exhibited in Age In Our Times, presented by The Health Museum, Houston, at the Texas Medical Center Research Building.
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Taking Up Space
Mixed Media: Canvas, Wood, Glass, Oil, 40” × 30”,2025
Taking Up Space is a refusal to shrink. The figure stands in rupture — hair carved from wood, glass scattering like the echo of protest. The work embodies breaking open, demanding space, a presence that will not be contained.
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Enlightened N0
Mixed Media: Canvas, Wood, Oil, LED Light, 48” x 26”, 2025
The Enlightened No is a meditation on stillness — the instant the world fades and the self comes into focus. Its simplicity draws you inward, until silence itself becomes the subject.
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Innocence
Oil on canvas, 51”x32”, 2025
Innocence reflects the weight of judgment placed on women’s bodies, revealing how rules and expectations are passed down. The work asks viewers to consider how clothing choices shape perception — and the stories we place upon women.
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The Persian F-You
Mixed Media: Wood, Graphite, Persian Rug, 44”x26”, 2025
The Persian F-You is raw, unapologetic, and deeply personal — a decisive act of defiance, a refusal to be contained, and a release from everything that demanded silence.
Currently in a private collection.
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The Empath
Oil on canvas, 10”x8”, 2024
The Empath exposes a quiet contradiction — a quality society hails as virtue can, when carried too far, hollow out the very person who bears it. A head becomes an ashtray filled with the remnants of others’ burdens, asking: when does a virtue become a vice?
The Empath will be exhibited in Confetti: Tiny Vices and Virtues at Atelier by the Sea Grandon in November 2025.
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Boiling
Oil on canvas, 10”x8”, 2024
Boiling holds the unseen pressure of simmering anger, a meditation on what we keep contained — and what threatens to spill over.
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Uncaged
Oil on wood, 24”x23”, 2024
Uncaged delves into the tension between systemic oppression and the yearning for freedom. Through this work, the artist seeks to spark dialogue about liberation, resilience, and the enduring human spirit.
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