Patterns of light and colour that bear endless repeating

Aidan Dunne | The Irish Times | 21st August 2018

Monir has lived a life between extremes. She fitted into the art community in both New York and Tehran. Her artworks were destroyed in Iran after the 1979 Revolution but now a Tehran museum is dedicated to her. And her work spans both the Islamic geometric aesthetic and western abstraction. Notes the writer “it’s not clear that she particularly needed Western abstraction”.