Work of Art - Kymia nawabi

This exhibition highlights the work of Kymia Nawabi, the season-two winner of Bravo's series Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, a recently concluded creativ...

For me this feels incredibly appropriate. I worked so hard to get to this point in my life. I've made huge sacrifices and taken really big chances with being on something like a reality show. But it ended up being a facility that led me to something I've been trying to do for so long in my life. It means a lot to me, I want my work to be seen by the public. I want it to be hated, I want it to be loved. I want it to be talked about, I want it to create discussion and controversy and inspiration. I want all of that. The title for my show is Not For Long, My Forlorn. It's based on one piece that I began the whole collection with. What's in that piece that inspired the rest of the show is really my deep investigation that I've started at this point in my life on spirituality. I thought it was interesting how with working with these ideas of what it all means, of who we are and what we are, and how we die, we're born and maybe we're re-born. These are the things that inspired me for my show. I felt that once I got into one piece it snowballed into the next. This opportunity to finally have a lot of my work, a cohesive collection, shown all at once as the sole exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum is a dream come true it really is. I'm very, very excited about the exhibition. It's something I feel very proud of.