Tara in Abstract 🙃

On November 11th, 2026 we will be opening Moments of the Unknown: Enter Through the Thrift Shop. This exhibition will span across an entire 7 floor building, which my studio currently resides in, for a month long. Since September, 2025 my partner @ViktoriaNagibi1, have been working tirelessly creating 366 (30x40in) silkscreen paintings on canvas sourced from the original film stills; an enhanced with ai and augmented reality components. Over the course of this year we had built a beautiful relationship with our Landlord, Bijan. A 17th century antiques dealer who’s been running his shop for 45 years! Before that, this building was built in 1895 for the Photographic Times. An early photography publication in New York City. As we grew into this space and over the year, we had been dreaming up a show. The right show, how to convey this project on its totality. In June, 2026 the landlord sold the original building next door to our current one. And we were blessed by Bijan to take up a much larger space for the inconvenience. It was perfect timing because we were nearly done painting, and needed more space to start stretching! It proved to me that if you focus on your work, and you are grateful for everything and everyone going on in your life. Miracles start to happen, as small lessons of acceptance, letting go, and trusting the process of following your path as an artist. You can’t plan for these type of events, they sort of just happen and you have to ride through the waves to the other side of it. Once we moved in to our new space, we noticed all the floors were empty! This planted a seed in my consciousness. What if, we did the art show here? In this building, and breathed life into its empty shell. We asked the landlord and his daughters, and they happily agreed. After we showed them the renders, they made a joke that we were bringing the “MoMa” to their building. Our big dream, started to become a logical reality. We wanted to tell not just the complete story from the past to the future across 7 continents of Moments of the Unknown, but in context to the buildings history as a whole. It showed me what is possible, and where we are and how we connect to spaces can become the exhibition space itself. The building is our alternative art space. I always thought the future is transforming unconventional spaces into art spaces. Not just as novelty, but as a matter of conceptual connectivity to the idea an artist is conveying. In our case, the whole world exists in New York City. So we wanted to showcase that in a building we grown to appreciate in the heart of the city. To learn its history that came before us, and how we add to that story. This exhibition will be not just an art show of paintings and videos and Polaroids and podcasts, but a story you can walk through and become a participant of. Manufacturing a memory, or a moment inside the moments of the unknown. A different kind of art experience, something real and grounded in the true spirit of an artists life and the lives that came before us and will come after. This entire project is self funded on a dream, we do not have any partners or sponsors or galleries or museums. The people who made this possible is YOU! The collectors and the patrons who believed in me, who trust my passion and vision, those who wanted to be a part of the journey all along. Thank you to everyone who has ever supported my art. This is the manifesting incarnate of what supporting an artist can become. We are building buildings together. Please, join us on 11/11 and East 11th to be a part of this monumental moment into the unknown. RSVP at this link 🔗 momentsoftheunknown.com/rsvp…