The (Identity) collection is actually about women's rights, especially in Muslim and patriarchal society. — Mahtab Basiri

This is a great opportunity for the HCC students and the Houston art audience to see incredible paintings made by a contemporary artist from Iran. Ms. Basiri analyzes the human experience with figural paintings imbued with personal content and intelligent symbolic combinations. Her stunning use of light, color, pattern, texture and space is sophisticated and charismatic. She makes multifaceted allusions to female challenges with her contemporary realism. — Stanley Kaminski