My Lonely is Mine
an exhibition of self-portraits by
Tatyana Fazlalizadeh
October 10th
Open 3-11PM
Seven House Gallery
35 Meadow St,
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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“Lonely, ain't it?
Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.”
- Toni Morrison, Sula
This one-day exhibition presents 12–15 oil paintings, drawings, and photographs created over the past twenty years. Together, these works trace Fazlalizadeh’s ongoing exploration of her own image across the arc of her adult life. While Fazlalizadeh is widely recognized for public art that confronts how women and Black people move through and experience public space, her practice spans multiple media—returning always to oil painting, her first artistic language.
Through self-portraiture, she investigates the interior: the private, layered, and evolving act of seeing herself. To place her own image in public is to claim space as a Black, queer woman, rendering her presence, vulnerability, and authority visible.
Only open for one day, this show offers art lovers and longtime followers of Fazlalizadeh’s work a rare opportunity to experience her oil paintings in person and to encounter the artist more intimately—as a woman in all her complexity.
This self-funded, self-executed show marks both a celebration of her work and her 40th birthday, unfolding in Brooklyn, a city she holds as one of the great loves of her life.
Run of Day:
Exhibtion will be open to the public beginninga at 3PM
At 7PM, Tatyana will give a short but important artist talk. Be there for that.
At 8:00, the party starts as DJ Tara plays until the show closes at 10:30PM.