2021 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Soude Dadras: “Material Intelligence”

From the venue:

The Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design is excited to present the Annual 2021 M.F.A. thesis exhibitions.

Our MFA exhibitions are a highly anticipated annual spring series of solo shows that are presented in fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree at the Welch School of Art & Design at Georgia State University, Atlanta. You will enjoy viewing these shows which are the culmination of three years of research and art making.

Soude Dadras is an artist, curator, and educator living and working in Atlanta, Georgia and is an MFA candidate at Georgia State University. She was born in Iran and graduated from Islamic Azad University with a bachelor’s degree in Persian Rugs, and a concentration in restoration of antique and historic hand-woven textiles.

In her studio Dadras combines traditional handwork, found objects, and abandoned textiles to reference the human history, language, tradition, and culture base on her personal experience.

Soude creates using a variety of materials but favors discarded fabric and other old, damaged, stained, and unwanted items. She cherishes the history of each item in her work, and allows the materials to directly influence and guide her artwork and the process of its creation. She incorporates mending, weaving, sewing, surface design, drawing, collage, mixed media techniques, and more in her projects.

Her new body of work deals with the grief and sorrow and rituals of healing and dealing with loss, communication, and ways communities deal with the pain.

Over the past five years, Dadras has been working on her curatorial project, “Ongoing Conversation.” The mission of the project is “to bring together disparate voices in the visual arts through an international purview in order to examine cross cultural similarities of the human condition.”

Admission is free and a timed e-ticket is recommended. Masks and a minimum of 6 feet of social distancing are required. A maximum of 10 visitors per 30 minute time slot is permitted in the galleries.