About the Artist
Kamran Fallahpour, PhD, is a neuroscientist, sculptor, composer, and musician based in New York City. He works in various artistic media with a special focus on sculpture. His multidisciplinary background inspires him to create artwork that offers immersive, cross-modal experiences for the viewer. His most recent work, Arrival: Consciousness at the Edge of Chaos (2023), exemplifies this artistry. To accompany the large bronze sculpture, Fallahpour composed original music that extend the sculpture’s narrative into the realm of sound and invites the audience to experience the piece on multiple sensory levels.
Fallahpour’s work has been exhibited in numerous venues and is part of private collections across the United States and Europe. For sales inquiries or to commission an original piece, please send an email to kf@brainresourcecenter.com.
Medium & Process
Fallahpour frequently works with plaster and applies it to steel rods and frames. This method introduces an element of spontaneity and a sense of urgency to his creative process as he must shape the piece quickly before the plaster dries. Fallahpour draws inspiration in the moment from this dynamic process and the tactile sensation of the plaster, allowing the work to organically evolve in real-time and give rise to stylized sculpted figures. Reduced to their most basic and minimal form, his sculptures convey subtle but powerful expressions that evoke depth beneath their simplicity.
Neuroscience
Fallahpour’s interest and professional training in neuroscience and psychology add an additional layer to his work as he utilizes art as a medium for exploring themes related to the fragility of human nature, resilience, stillness, transcendance, and plasticity of perception. His work also explores the boundaries between opposing forces—order and chaos, music and noise, form and formlessness—and how meaning can be found from their interplay.
Central to his artistic vision is this recursive idea of mutual transformation: the artist changes their medium to create art and in turn, the finished work changes both the artist and the viewer.