IT’S NOT EASY to find the right moniker for Fereydoun Ave. Cumbersome hyphenates like artist-designer-gallerist seem reductive as labels for a métier that is more than the sum of its parts. Ave’s own artwork, marked by a theatrical sensibility, spans media (painting, collage, assemblage). He has produced stage sets, costumes, domestic interiors, and furniture, in addition to making frequent forays into graphic design. He has founded commercial galleries and experimental spaces. In his hometown of Tehran, he has a reputation for generosity, mentorship, and community-building and is also valued as the rare artist to have returned to live and work in Iran after the 1979 Islamic Revolution. “I’m a bridge, darling,” he told me recently.
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From left: bassist Bets Pott, drummer Greg Friedman, harpist Dana Williams and guitarist Jeffrey Howrey perform as the Dr. Bob Band with guest Dana Williams at the Boneyard last year. Howrey recently received a $1,000 Individual Artist Emergency Fund grant on behalf of the band from the Utah Division of Arts and Museums. The grant is available to qualifying artists, musicians and others who are part of the Utah arts community during the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Bob Band will use the funds on its new video for the song Common Man.
Courtesy of Jeffrey Howrey
Christmas came early to Park City’s Dr. Bob Band.