"Shiva Ahmadi: Strands of Resilience," with paintings focusing on the female figure, mixed with violent imagery, is scheduled to open Sunday and marks the museum's first solo exhibition of a current UCD art professor.
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The Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis, will feature “Shiva Ahmadi: Strands of Resilience,” opening Sunday, Jan. 28. Ahmadi, a professor of art at UC Davis, uses painting as a form of truth-telling, combining luminous colors and mystical beings with violent imagery to draw attention to urgent global issues of migration, war and brutality against marginalized peoples.