Evan Mateen approached pottery as a new medium in an effort to expand his vocabulary in traditional Iranian art forms, combining imagery from talismans and miniatures with excerpts of classical Persian poems. The following is a selection of vessels and clayware he made during his first two years at Harvard College.
Evan is a recent graduate of Harvard College with a concentration in Government and secondaries in Studio Art and Chinese. In his artwork, he is interested in reappropriating traditional Persian images, texts and motifs in modern visual formats to produce works that convey the duality between cultural memory and current experiences as a first generation American.
