Ali Banisadr was born in Tehran in 1976. He lives and works in New York City. Rendered in a semi-abstract style, Banisadr’s paintings combine stylistic idioms from the history of western art with references to Persian miniature painting. Underlying the seductive beauty of Banisadr’s richly interwoven imagery is the apocalyptic nature of his subject matter. In these works, memory and history collide, inspired by his childhood recollections of the Iran-Iraq War.