https://www.alaebtekar.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-12 https://www.alaebtekar.com/contact daily 0.75 2023-11-22 https://www.alaebtekar.com/journal daily 0.75 2023-11-22 https://www.alaebtekar.com/press-publications daily 0.75 2024-10-09 https://www.alaebtekar.com/works daily 0.75 2026-02-11 https://www.alaebtekar.com/works/coelestis monthly 0.5 2020-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592619245189-EBIR2VH0U6LVCMNHG0B1/Ala-Ebtekar-Coelestis.jpg Works - Coelestis Coelestis (after Hafiz) Gold, ink, watercolor and print on book* pages mounted on canvas 33 x 47.5 in. 2012 *book: Divan of Hafiz, lithograph printed book [1867] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592619713752-UJW3MBKDFX88NHSAUUTP/Ala-Ebtekar-Coelestis-detail.jpg Works - Coelestis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592619660831-VD3GSWIROC44VD1Y9KXO/Ala-Ebtekar-Coelestis_02.jpg Works - Coelestis https://www.alaebtekar.com/works/luminous-ground monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590645997380-VE4K46LS44V23Y3INLLE/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-ClyMix-02.jpg Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590650333984-2D125XKTSNRZZIQU8RSG/Ala-Ebtekar_BeNotStill_diRosa_02.jpg Works - Luminous Ground Cyanotype on one thousand handmade ceramic tiles made from California soil and exposed by sunlight // Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590645944974-KI66PPGUO32QGUU9KU7D/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-Claymix-01.jpg Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590650378657-AQA3MRX6S7OXIHJP7TIZ/Ala-Ebtekar_BeNotStill_diRosa_01.png Works - Luminous Ground Cyanotype on one thousand handmade ceramic tiles made from California soil and exposed by sunlight // Be Not Still: Living in Uncertain Times at di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa, CA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590645997228-0AFIFOJ4DV9ZJSS2DWOU/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-Clay-01.jpg Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/8595537b-40a8-4032-b15b-13ca2ac0707f/LuminousGround-AAM-ArtTerrace.jpg Works - Luminous Ground 1800 handmade ceramic tiles made from California soil treated with cyanotype and exposed by sunlight // Asian Art Museum / San Francisco, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590646000736-UQMH0SUZV726YF6OULEY/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_01.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/b4a395d4-2fca-42a6-a40a-1fccf4fd6003/IMG_0431.jpg Works - Luminous Ground detail // 1800 handmade ceramic tiles made from California soil treated with cyanotype and exposed by sunlight // Asian Art Museum / San Francisco, CA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592113698148-MRAVUNX7IA4GWG2ECFZV/IMG_1771.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/0c6eac70-57c1-46bb-b5e4-2145c7b92c34/Ala-Ebtekar-Luminous-Ground.png Works - Luminous Ground City of Oakland Public Art Commission at College Preparatory School in collaboration with Mosaika, Montréal and Jensen Architects, SF https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590646059997-MC97WSZI4TB2C7J92BQN/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-Ritsuko.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592113406641-TQMZYUKO8A4E0UQNTMH3/IMG_3144.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592113410836-VIOMU4IDDN5O1WZ3EU5Y/IMG_8130.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592113792449-VTUEY1I8NNGB9FSQLCX2/IMG_1504.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590650043711-S536MN9RYWVBFT1ZPK20/IMG_1659.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590649730437-GMSW2AD27ZHWUPAZ574E/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_03.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592110922116-9H3DL4X6U0MR2K8CNRBE/IMG_0190.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592110933225-TUHLZPF0R53OUAXQR1RZ/IMG_0188.JPG Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592110980624-NPLY6OLCLIMJHPOEE5OX/Ala-Ebtekar-Luminous-Ground_18.jpeg Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/cfcbb6c2-3253-47e2-b621-8dbfa4ccfc07/Screen+Shot+2023-06-04+at+11.09.40+PM.png Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/33d0e26d-45b3-47ff-ab08-7ecfdc897161/Luminous-Ground-AAM-install-02.jpg Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/2433585c-ba46-42e8-a04f-d7addd6e86e0/Luminous-Ground-AAM-install-01.jpg Works - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1590651166124-DOHJFLU4Y4ZQQ3JY1PMX/Ala-Ebtekar-LuminousGround.jpg Works - Luminous Ground - Luminous Ground 2017 - ONGOING Not long ago, we brought the skies closer to earth by covering the interior of domes and praying halls with polychrome tiles, representing heaven looking over us; heaven made from the earth; from clay on the bed of rivers, the soil that embraced layers and layers of organic and non-organic matter that flowed in the rivers over millions and millions of years. Now, telescopes bring the skies closer to us; but looking at the night sky, with telescope or naked eye, we are unwittingly gazing billions of years back, only assuming we are witnessing the Now. The (GOODS/ERS2 Field) image from the Hubble telescope shatters the illusion as it shows around 7,500 galaxies spanning through more than 12 billion years of cosmic history, shaking the foundations of our anthropocentric history. Mirroring this image of the cosmos on tiles, each iteration of the work is produced in-situ with the space. For example in the 2017 work for the diRosa Center for Contemporary Art the tiles installed on the gallery floor mirrored the exact dimensions of the skylight directly above. The work shifted the place of heaven and earth, this time by inviting us to shift the direction of our gaze, to imagine the “Original Gaze,” of the skies looking at us. And this calling, to shift the gaze, is a call to action—action as simple as imagining ourselves as the objects of the 12 billion-year gaze. The tiles that are made in a process that brings the four elements together, not only mirror the heaven on earth, materially and directionally. Working with local soil to produce hand made tiles that are shaped and fired, and then treated with an altered cyanotype technique, in which the surface is treated with potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate, where the red iron changes into blue by being exposed to the Sun; from the color of the earth to the color of the sky. The work is birthed by light. https://www.alaebtekar.com/works/project-three-t5mw3 monthly 0.5 2020-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1589741507940-FTV1CCBFYE6MQJ7T1O2W/TTL_Ala+Ebtekar_Safina_2018_Installation+view_16_l.jpg Works - Thirty-six Views of the Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1589741987306-BRM78RDZVD0NZ5WF3Q92/McEvoy+Foundation+for+the+Arts_What+is+an+edition+anyway__%2318_%C2%A9Henrik+Kam+2019.jpg Works - Thirty-six Views of the Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1589741467939-9D1Z5MUFCY542FRHX7IR/TTL_Ala+Ebtekar_Safina_2018_Installation+view_5_l.jpg Works - Thirty-six Views of the Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1589742083707-KXS0H69AKI7DB6I1X8LI/Detail-36Views-Ala-Ebtekar.jpg Works - Thirty-six Views of the Moon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1589744459458-OF74IZT5WF4CXJPTRZRL/Ala-Ebtekar-ThirtySixViewsMOON_Spring_BL+8.jpg Works - 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Nightfall https://www.alaebtekar.com/works/tunnel-in-the-sky monthly 0.5 2020-06-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592463203948-BRYEB568YWEODZSBM67Z/Ala-Ebtekar-Tunnel-in-the-Sky-01-YBCA.jpg Works - Tunnel in the Sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592463434514-2FQWO79I9MASD6ZCN3KD/Ala-Ebtekar-Tunnel-in-the-Sky-11-YBCA.jpg Works - Tunnel in the Sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592463211917-N15WZPI7087MLCFLADLP/Ala-Ebtekar-Tunnel-in-the-Sky-02-YBCA.jpg Works - Tunnel in the Sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592464442915-OJSAG4CKUYIQGWP15SDA/Ala-Ebtekar-Tunnel-in-the-Sky-11.jpg Works - Tunnel in the Sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592464402787-JO3WR9315F2QYIFQ99CP/Ala-Ebtekar-Tunnel-in-the-Sky-11_detail.jpg Works - Tunnel in the Sky https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592464410718-LXQ9E9P83FTE30VLC6AN/Ala-Ebtekar-Tunnel-in-the-Sky-11_detail-YBCA.jpg Works - 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(72” x 36 1/4” each panel) / 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592337169434-8G453GQ9F8J5V3DRJZKP/Ala-Ebtekar-studio-zenith.JPG Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592334262917-2LA54GY0S44ES2QPZR8C/Ala-Ebtekar-Nowheresville-2015-02.jpg Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592630928471-2HVMLMK30YGJN3MOHQ52/Ala-Ebtekar-palette.jpg Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592120303241-CFWYQUO1K5MHN9ZAOLEB/IMG_0696.JPG Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1e5819d1-6254-47dd-8ebd-7d9522df1d6a/Zenith-Moonlight_lowres.png Works - Zenith Zenith (nightfall) // Acrylic over cyanotype exposed by moonlight on canvas 72” x 36” in. / 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592336827564-5GHYSB5W86T19SK893CT/Ala-Ebtekar-Zenith_FriezeNY_2016.jpg Works - Zenith Zenith (VI) // Acrylic over cyanotype exposed by sunlight on canvas Quadriptych, 64” x 124” in. (64” x 31” each panel) / 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592120332485-WZ8ZDTG3H977M0D37X0N/IMG_0695+2.JPG Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592120279263-P1E7MKF61D1QLV98QCM4/IMG_7875.JPG Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592118412657-JTS7MA7TCVRLF93LFGID/IMG_1504.JPG Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592120381742-ZD5FAV3E72DK7A7LDMTA/IMG_0534.JPG Works - Zenith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592338197743-5CA9P3I4QFRTBYU3LC42/Zenith-VII-SFO_e.jpg Works - Zenith Zenith (VII) // Acrylic over cyanotype exposed to sunlight on canvas Quadriptych, 72” x 145” in. (72” x 36 1/4” each panel) 2017 / Collection of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592116305084-JQGRL0PPYN4OHTX50SL1/IMG_0454.JPG Works - Zenith https://www.alaebtekar.com/exhibitions daily 1.0 2026-02-11 https://www.alaebtekar.com/exhibitions/negus monthly 0.5 2020-07-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592535207933-ZLHUMMG9SHSAD8MXUUD4/DIG_E_2019_yasiin_bey_Negus_05_PS11-General+Use+JPEG.jpg Exhibitions - NEGUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592535207399-MIKY8VDX8INFLYWGECI3/DIG_E_2019_yasiin_bey_Negus_10_PS11-General+Use+JPEG.jpg Exhibitions - NEGUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592536315621-KAC2LXT590DRTAE84QQM/kolinmendezphoto-bkm-yasiin-bey-negus-opening-festivities-4-1701.jpg Exhibitions - NEGUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592536345517-RI8OYZ4X0SY139K1H4UN/kolinmendezphoto-bkm-yasiin-bey-negus-opening-festivities-7-1718.jpg Exhibitions - NEGUS https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1592537674209-56QG0VQ07VMLVUWQUO2D/kolinmendezphoto-bkm-yasiin-bey-negus-opening-festivities-1-1680.jpg Exhibitions - NEGUS https://www.alaebtekar.com/exhibitions/luminous-ground monthly 0.5 2023-10-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/f63767c1-79a2-4c4d-af17-bb1feb460b51/LuminousGround-AAM-ArtTerrace.png Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/0acf2332-3fb7-45a9-9517-042b2831d362/Luminous-Ground-AAM-install-02.jpg Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/43867a6d-4e2f-412c-943e-eaaa5c48f098/Luminous-Ground-AAM-install-01.jpg Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/f541dfe8-1a55-425a-b189-65b0a6a134f2/IMG_0431.jpg Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/36f8ec8d-096a-4fe2-b7a1-5a1b341c8940/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-Clay-01.jpg Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/adce65ee-cbd6-4fd5-a2bd-0a685dc29366/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-Claymix-01.jpg Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/f5b1150b-b24f-4ed3-bfd1-28029ab5e3f6/LuminousGround-Ala-Ebtekar-Studio_Fresno-ClyMix-02.jpg Exhibitions - Luminous Ground https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec08614dc6caa06d367a63e/1591338866998-KOO5Z8H2WGLZQWDU42EF/Ala-Ebtekar-Luminous-GroundJPG Exhibitions - Luminous Ground - LUMINOUS GROUND ASIAN ART MUSEUM August 24, 2023 - July 21, 2025 Not long ago, we brought the skies closer to earth by covering the interior of domes and praying halls with polychrome tiles, representing heaven looking over us; heaven made from the earth; from clay on the bed of rivers, the soil that embraced layers and layers of organic and non-organic matter that flowed in the rivers over millions and millions of years. Now, telescopes bring the skies closer to us; but looking at the night sky, with telescope or naked eye, we are unwittingly gazing billions of years back, only assuming we are witnessing the Now. The (GOODS/ERS2 Field) image from the Hubble telescope shatters the illusion as it shows around 7,500 galaxies spanning through more than 12 billion years of cosmic history, shaking the foundations of our anthropocentric history. Mirroring this image of the cosmos on tiles installed on the new East West Bank Art Terrace at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, The tiles that are made in a process that brings the four elements together, not only mirror the heaven on earth, materially and directionally. Working with local soil to produce hand made tiles that are shaped and fired, and then treated with an altered cyanotype technique, in which the surface is treated with potassium ferricyanide and ferric ammonium citrate, where the red iron changes into blue by being exposed to the Sun; from the color of the earth to the color of the sky. 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