Meet the Artist

Behrad

Motekallem

Drawing & Painting

“Behrad Motekallem is an Iranian-Canadian artist based in Montréal, Quebec. His allegoric, semi-abstract paintings are visually informed in equal parts by classical painting traditions and contemporary urban environments. The juxtaposition of scratch marks and rhythmic brush strokes simultaneously invoke the visual language of tattered advertisement posters and the meditative calligraphy paintings of Asia. These various contrasting and harmonizing elements come together in the work to ultimately revolve around the central theme of Urban Decay.”

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Born 1996 in TehranBehrad Motekallem is an Iranian-Canadian artist based in Montreal, Quebec.
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2020
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