Samira Abbassy’s paintings and drawings contain the feel of an artist who has slowly cultivated her technique and iconography over time. Her practice contains strong personal and sociopolitical elements — revealing intense internal psychological dramas while simultaneously representing her Iranian heritage and its Persian and Arab ties. The dream-like renderings of the largely female figures present in her solo presentation Embodied Mythologies at ADVOCARTSY have a kind of Jungian undertone and display a carefully cultivated stylistic approach that manages to come across as idiosyncratic without having the feel of a brand.
21.7 Killing Polemarchus
Among these targets of the Thirty was the family of Cephalus, who is the host of the gathering portrayed in Plato’s Republic. Cephalus was a foreigner from Syracuse…