Spaced Case

Employing a range of American and Iranian imagery and styles, from miniature painting to graffiti art, Amir H. Fallah creates elaborate, lush, and complicated compositions. For his first solo exhibition with Eli Ridgway Gallery, Fallah presents a new body of work tailor-made for the gallery's hometown of San Francisco — loaded with references to the pop, psychedelic, spiritual, and virtual adventures of California lifestyle.

From elaborately colorful arrangements of flowers and kaleidoscopic water pipes to live-action role playing, Fallah playfully incorporates his voyeuristic perspective on New Age and illicit drug cultures — themes riddled with mysticism, superstition, and the desire to transform oneself while achieving a state of bliss.