ARTISTS
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La couleur et son rythme Neila Ben Ayed |
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Entrer dans l’œuvre de Neila Ben Ayed, c’est faire l’expérience d’une découverte plastique où le figuratif et l’abstrait s’harmonisent sur le même plan. Jeux de contrastes et de textures se retrouvent sur ses toiles flamboyantes de couleurs.
Détentrice d’un baccalauréat en Design industriel et d’une maitrise en ergonomie de l’Université de Montréal, Neila Ben Ayed a aussi étudié l’art plastique à la Faculté d’architecture et des beaux-arts de Tunis et à l’Université de Montréal. Depuis qu’elle a remporté le premier prix du concours international d'affiche 2003 de Vues d'Afrique à Montréal, ses expériences et ses recherches artistiques se sont multipliées et lui ont permis de réaliser plus d’une vingtaine d’expositions individuelles et collectives à travers le Canada, la France ainsi que son pays d’origine, la Tunisie. Plusieurs de ses œuvres font partie de collections privées dans les pays mentionnés ci-dessus. L’artiste a aussi reçu plusieurs prix et mentions. Elle est membre professionnel du cercle des artistes peintres et sculpteur du Québec. Visit: www.neila-benayed.ca
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| Eye storm / Tempête de l’œil paintings by Khosro Berahmandi |
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“One is born at the moment of meeting the other; grows under one’s own eyes and dies under the eyes of the myth.”
Currently based in Montreal, Berahmandi has participated in over 20 exhibitions in Canada, Europe and the United States. Inspired by the eyes of his audience, the words of poets and the notes of musicians, it is through art that Khosro dreams of the future.
Visit: www.khosro.info. |
| Bahram Dabiri |
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Bahram Dabiri grew up in Shiraz surrounded by poems of Saadi and Hafez and influenced by great Iranian thinkers such as Roumi. He believes in graphical beauty and elegance of Iranian culture and that art and science are rooted in eastern culture. By combining these traditions, Dabiri achieves a medium where there exists no clear west or east. Dabiri’s main themes in his paintings are women, love and material symbols. Dabiri also works in ceramics, felt rug (Namad), Gabbeh and metal parts. Visit: www.mekic.ca. |
| From Alhambra to the Nile and to Baghdad: Orientalist Movie Theaters Across the United States Jonathan Friedlander |
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An exhibition of contemporary and vintage photographs depicting Orientalist movie theaters / palaces of yesteryear and those still standing–from the restored Fox Theater in Atlanta (formerly a Shriners temple) to the quintessential Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, which showcases America’s fascination with and appropriation of the Middle East in the realm of popular culture–from the onset of movie making to the present. Photographed and assembled by Jonathan Friedlander as part of the Middle Eastern Americana collection housed at UCLA. Visit: www.international.ucla.edu/article.asp?parentid=35055 |
| Dazzled by Pattern acrylic cloth paintings by Nadia Hlibka |
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After years of looking at, being enamored of, and inspired by the various design traditions of the Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, it was inevitable that Nadia celebrates the variety and richness of pattern. This new series of works celebrates the beauty, innovation and diversity of design and pattern. Visit: www.nadiahlibka.com. |
| Tradition of Islamic Scholarship in Timbuktu photographs by Alexandra Huddleston |
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The tradition of Islamic scholaship in Timbuktu defines many commonly held assumptions about both Africa and Islam. It shows that literacy and intellectualism have existed in West Africa for over nine centuries, along with a form of Islam characterized by tolerance with a strong tradition of peaceful conflict resolution and respect for women’s rights. Visit: www.alexandrahuddleston.com |
| Homeira Mortazavi |
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For Mortazavi, painting is about the creative process; seeing more closely, more slowly, discovering unplanned relationships, observing forms and patterns. In the action of painting, she is guided by the work which instructs her and creates itself. Painting is an experience of a range of emotions such as joy, excitement, irritation, awe, and timelessness. Visit: http://pages.infinit.net/homeira |
| "Water, Soil, and the Goddess" recent paintings by Manya Saadi-Nejad |
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In these paintings I explore the roles and experiences of women from prehistory to the present: their duties, power, confusion. The ancient statuette of Venus is an archetypical representation of woman’s life-giving role; her Iranian analogue is Anahita, goddess of the waters, also seen as a source of life. I have known no more powerful symbol of female strength than my grandmother, who passed away in August 2007. I offer this exhibition as a tribute to her memory. Contact: manya.sa@gmail.com.
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| "Big Miniatures" by Ozlem Silverstein |
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In this exhibition “Big Miniatures” I am trying to find an answer to the following questions: Can we narrate a repugnant event (such as war, torture, racial profiling, etc.) beautifully or even with humor? If we do that, then what kind of implications will the new product have? Is it only a piece of propaganda? Can we go beyond this and make it an aesthetically powerful artwork? Can we create a work that will function as an element for debate?
Contact: ozlem@email.arizona.edu. |
