Winter 2005
Kerstin Zurbrigg
Winter 2005 | Gallery By Kerstin Zurbrigg Alexandria based artist Amina Mansour is a member of a new generation of artists working within Egypt and within a context which both fuels and problematizes a critical position. In her recent work, Mansour has painstakenly fabricated a series of botanical shapes from a material rife with poetic and…
Fall 2005
Sharon LaVon Parker
Fall 2005 | Gallery By Sharon LaVon Parker Golnaz Fathi is a young Iranian artist whose paintings have been exhibited in a number of important galleries and museums in the Middle East, Europe and the United States over the past twelve years. Her work is transnational both in conception and in execution as it incorporates her…
Fall 2005 | Gallery By Sharon LaVon Parker ArteEast is excited to present the extraordinary paintings of Golnaz Fathi, a young artist living and working in Tehran. Her works are at once painterly explorations of color and form that integrate largely illegible calligraphy, as well as open-ended invitations to meditate on the silence and randomness that…
Summer 2005
Joe Tarrab
Summer 2005 | Gallery By Joe Tarrab Bearing the nickname “The Screw”, which fits perfectly with his emaciated physique and his ability to pierce through situations and beings, Rafik Majzoub migrated from Amman to Beirut in search for more breathing freedom. Carrying everywhere a diary sketch book, he unceasingly consigns his impressions of moments, places and…
Kirsten Scheid
Summer 2005 | Gallery By Kirsten Scheid Every few years Lebanon’s apartments and office buildings become a vast outdoors portrait exhibition, as candidates for parliamentary elections wage their campaigns by vying for virtual presence in the form of acrylic hand-painted on plywood. Local residents announce their support for a candidate by commissioning these likenesses and hanging…
Joe Tarrab, Kirsten Scheid
Summer 2005 | Gallery By Joe Tarrab and Kirsten Scheid Rafik Majzoub is a rising star in the Lebanese art scene, heading towards international recognition for his works which traverse the rich territory between the personal and the social. His paintings and larger scale conceptual pieces explore the many facets of this territory — including the arrogance of…
Spring 2005
Tina Sherwell, Lori Allen, Michket Krifa, Rula Halawani
Spring 2005 | Gallery ArteEast is pleased to present the work of Jerusalem-based artist Rula Halawani. Halawani’s photographic explorations of life in Palestine have been shown all over the world, most recently at the Sharjah Biennial. This exhibition features four series of works, each exploring different facets of the sensory experience of occupation through a…
Tina Sherwell, Rula Halawani
Spring 2005 | Gallery By Tina Sherwell In the photographs of Rula Halawani, the daily political reality of life in Palestine is represented. The artist creates and captures images that represent the changes and experiences of Palestinians. The artist suggests, “I am a working artist — a photographer living and working in an intensely political environment…The…
Lori Allen, Rula Halawani
Spring 2005 | Gallery By Lori Allen The skin of fingertips contains the highest density of nerve endings of any body part. From them pain, touch, pressure, temperature are conveyed through the hands’ vivid sensitivity. There is also something ultimately human about hands, and personal. They say that is part of what makes them one of…
Rula Halawani
Spring 2005 | Gallery By Rula Halawani I am a working artist, a photographer living and working in an intensely political environment. I am more comfortable taking photographs than writing or talking. Therefore I will try and talk about the relationship between art and politics from my own personal experience. The question of doing “political art”…
