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Item Ships From: Middle East
Gesture to Mondriaan
By Menashe Kadishman
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Menashe Kadishman - Gesture to Mondriaan - Jerusalem - Kings Gallery - Fine art -International art - Gallery art - Sheep.
“Gesture to Mondriaan” by Menashe Kadishman
Menashe Kadishma...
Category
1970s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cooking class, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
the grandmother showing the grandchildren how to make empanadas :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
the market, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
a typical view of a market in Jerusalem :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Sig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Market 2, Painting, Oil on Paper
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
a visit to the market and its colors, full of products, noises and aromas :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled 3
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied
Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy
of Fine...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Balloons over Manhattan
By Shay Kun
Located in Jerusalem, IL
A beautiful painting by Israeli artist Shay Kun.
Featuring a colorful display of hot air balloons floating above Manhattan.
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By (After) Victor Vasarely
Located in PARIS, FR
Victor Vasarely was a Hungarian-born French Op Art painter. He was best known as the "grandfather" of the Op Art movement of the 1960s. Vasarely was born in 1908 in Pecs, Hungary. He...
Category
1980s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
Double portrait, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The work is made on canvas of 100% high-quality and thick cotton. The Italian canvas is stretched on a solid pine wood frame with a profile thickness of 2.5 cm and a width of 4 cm. S...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Convergence, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The work is made on canvas of 100% high-quality and thick cotton. The Italian canvas is stretched on a solid pine wood frame with a profile thickness of 2.5 cm and a width of 4 cm. S...
Category
2010s Expressionist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Signs from above, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The work is made on canvas of 100% high-quality and thick cotton. The Italian canvas is stretched on a solid pine wood frame with a profile thickness of 2.5 cm and a width of 4 cm. S...
Category
2010s Expressionist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Ben Abounassif was born in Caracas in 1964 to Lebanese parents. He graduated from Tennessee Tech University in 1987 with a B.A. in Business Management. Abounassif's first contact working in the art world was in 2006 when he launched Leiter Gallery in Miami, a short but successful experience as a co-owner working along with Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Sinuhe Vega Leiter, and Venezuelan-born internationalist & journalist, Jesus Rojas Torres.
Abounassif's innate creativity was highly influenced by working closely with local artists and by visiting their studios and launching exhibitions at Leiter's, the only gallery in the U.S. that paid a living tribute to the late Cuban musician, Israel “Cachao" López. A year later in 2007, Abounassif exhibited his first art cube on Photo Miami '07 with Hardcore Contemporary Art in Wynwood.
In 2008, Miami art dealer...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Metal
$7,000
Chevauche Printanière
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique Artwork by Fatima El-Hajj.
The artist was born in Lebanon in 1953, graduated from the Lebanese University’s Fine Arts Institution, the completed a second degree at the Lening...
Category
2010s Contemporary Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
This is the moment before, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
There is a special, even magical moment, as I stand before the white canvas, virgin, before the beginning of a new painting, at this moment, before any first color or headline, the i...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
50 Shades of Blue
Located in PARIS, FR
Information: "Art is the pleasure of the mind."
Born in France, Christophe began with film photography.Trained with Paul Hallenaud, he participated in several art exhibitions and of...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Parc Montsouris
Located in PARIS, FR
“Her paintings show an absence of concession, a search for a personal world, for a harmony that is born from contradictory sentiments, between tranquillity and revolt, dreams and dou...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Salamoun describes herself as a dedicated observer of human evolution and the ever-shifting tides of change. Fueled by her profound fascination with the human experience and her pass...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$12,000
Espoir en Musique Lors D’une Nuit Étoilée en avant la Vie
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Lebanon, Daisy Abi Jaber studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She had participated in several individual and gro...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
VITALITY, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
"Even if you're old you do not have to behave like an old man" This is a sentence I heard and impressed me Because there are old men who simply grow roots from inactivity :: Painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
TANC - Shades of Blue, Automatic Writing
By TANC
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique artwork
Tanc is one of the most promising artists of his generation.
Born in Paris on May 11, 1979, lives and works in Paris.
Tanc's work bears the clear influence of abstract expressionist artists (the artist talks about Rothko, Pollock, Reinhardt, Hartung and especially Franz Kline are sources of inspiration in his practice). Tanc's practice reached a turning point: ever since his New York show at Catherine Ahnell Gallery, the artist left aside the colorful explosion that used to mark his paintings and is now more interested in nuances of black, lineary variations and automatic writing...
Category
2010s Abstract Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Generations, Painting, Oil on Paper
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
After I found a photo of a shoemaker from the past, I thought what would be the thought of a child of our time in front of everything that that photo represents in those times ... T...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Market 2021, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
People in the market . :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
When the Sky Fell Down
Located in PARIS, FR
B. Yaghi is a Lebanese contemporary artist born in 1984. Having lived in several countries, B. Yaghi soaked up the rich cultures of Beirut, London, Miami and Dubai, and was immersed ...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The road to Jerusalem colorful acrylic painting, gold abstract in red and pink
Located in Jerusalem, IL
gold leaf, acrylic and lacquer on board. very colorful work in pink and red. described the road to Jerusalem. Jerusalem of gold.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
CARTAGENA, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
Traveling around Spain I arrived on Sunday at Cartagena and I met a group of participants from a club that likes to walk around the center dressing as in the early 20th century, very...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
in the sea, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
Within these days of tension over covid19 and confinements, the painting offers a moment of relaxation and peace. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certific...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Veterans, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
Meeting between pensioners, a chat with friends :: Painting :: Folk Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes ::...
Category
2010s Folk Art Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Strokes
Located in PARIS, FR
George Merheb was born in 1960. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon. Merheb completed a number of specialized course...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
July 2019, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by the immigrants from Ethiopia and all the difficulties they suffer from the very natural problems of absorption in another new world and above it the racism of inferior pe...
Category
2010s Impressionist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Illusion 9
Located in PARIS, FR
Syrian Artist Yasser Hammoud
Yasser Hammoud was born in Tartous, Syria, in 1963 he studied at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus and graduated from the Departme...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$17,000
Leaving, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
A ship moving away and reaching the horizon leaving her on the dock :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Re...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Transitory, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
A generation comes and a generation goes Quote to Dali's work :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trinidad, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
A street in Trinidad Cuba :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Weekend, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Asher Topel
Located in Yardley, PA
People enjoying the air, the sea and the sun on the beach and in the park :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Realist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
When Red is Love
Located in PARIS, FR
He has participated in over sixty group Art Shows and biennales since 1968 including Rochester Memorial museum 1974, Low Art Centre, Syracuse 1975, Soursouk Museum, Beirut, 1984-2008...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
World's dance
Located in PARIS, FR
Ihab Ahmad is a painter and sculptor based in Lebanon whose works have been exhibited in China, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and France. He describes the majority of his pieces a...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Des Fleurs, des Figures des Identités Perdues séparpillent Libres
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Lebanon, Daisy Abi Jaber studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She had participated in several individual and gro...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Earth Rises
Located in PARIS, FR
Missak Terzian is a Lebanese-American contemporary visual artist of Armenian descent born in 1949 in Beirut. Renowned for his semi-abstract figurative and modern abstract expressioni...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
$40,000
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
DANIEL SAMPER AVENDAÑO (COLOMBIAN, b. 1980)
“I explore the art overlapping paint lines and dots that are dispose systematically over canvas, giving a three-dimensional character to ...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$17,872
Untitled 8
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied
Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy
of Fine Art Toros Roslin. Some of the artist’s works are on view in permanent collections
including: Sursock Museum (Beirut), Vatican City (Rome), Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum “MACAM” (Lebanon), Museum of the Shrine of Fatima...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
TANC - Blue Automatic Writing
By TANC
Located in PARIS, FR
About the artist:
Tanc's work bears the clear influence of abstract expressionist artists (the artist talks about Rothko, Pollock, Reinhardt, Hartung and especially Franz Kline are s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Helen Khal grew up in a Lebanese family in Pennsylvania. In 1946, she went to live in Lebanon for two years, studying painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut, and meeting the artists Shafic Abboud...
Category
1970s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,000
Adam
Located in PARIS, FR
Early Life and Education:
Ghazi Baker, a proponent of Neo-expressionism, was born in 1967 in the vibrant city of Beirut, Lebanon. Raised amidst the rich cultural tapestry of Lebanon, Baker's early years were influenced by the eclectic blend of history, art, and tumultuous social dynamics of the region. In 1991, Baker graduated with distinction from the esteemed American University in Beirut, earning a degree in architecture (B. Arch). This academic pursuit not only honed his technical skills but also instilled in him a profound appreciation for spatial dynamics, form, and structure—a foundation that would later shape his distinctive artistic style.
Artistic Journey:
Despite his architectural training, Baker felt an irresistible pull towards the realm of visual arts. Fueled by an innate passion for creativity and expression, he embarked on a transformative journey into the world of painting. Drawing inspiration from his surroundings, Baker immersed himself in the vibrant palette of pop art and Neo-expressionism— movements characterized by i bold colors, emotive brushwork, and introspective themes.
Neo-expressionist Evolution:
Baker's artistic evolution unfolded against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world. His works reflect a profound engagement with the human condition, exploring themes of identity, displacement, and the universal quest for meaning. Through his dynamic compositions and visceral imagery, Baker invites viewers to delve beneath the surface.
International Recognition:
Over the years, Baker's distinctive style has garnered widespread acclaim, earning him recognition on the international stage. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, captivating audiences with their raw energy and emotional resonance. From New York to Paris...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
$12,000
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Mixed Media
$5,500
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Salamoun describes herself as a dedicated observer of human evolution and the ever-shifting tides of change. Fueled by her profound fascination with the human experience and her pass...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$2,500
Knots and Butterflies
Located in PARIS, FR
B. Yaghi is a Lebanese contemporary artist born in 1984. Having lived in several countries, B. Yaghi soaked up the rich cultures of Beirut, London, Miami and Dubai, and was immersed ...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
TANC - Untitled Blue & Pink
By TANC
Located in PARIS, FR
About the artist:
Tanc's work bears the clear influence of abstract expressionist artists (the artist talks about Rothko, Pollock, Reinhardt, Hartung and especially Franz Kline are sources of inspiration in his practice). Tanc's practice reached a turning point: ever since his New York show at Catherine Ahnell Gallery, the artist left aside the colorful explosion that used to mark his paintings and is now more interested in nuances of black, lineary variations and automatic writing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$12,000
"PRSNT" Mixed Media Abstract Painting 40" x 30" inch by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"PRSNT" Mixed Media Abstract Painting 40" x 30" inch by Ben Cope
2022
Photo on deconstructed paper with oils and paint pigments
Mixed media oil on wood
Ben Cope is a Georgia native...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
The Happy Collection
Located in PARIS, FR
B. Yaghi is a Lebanese contemporary artist born in 1984. Having lived in several countries, B. Yaghi soaked up the rich cultures of Beirut, London, Miami and Dubai, and was immersed ...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
La faim
Located in PARIS, FR
LEILA NSEIR (Syria, 1941-2022)
Born in Lattakia, Syria in 1941, Leila Nseir graduated from the
Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo in 1963. Beginning her career during the height of Syria...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$12,000
Al Taslim, Capitulation
Located in PARIS, FR
Since the 1940s, the Egyptian painter Hamed Abdalla is not only a visionary pioneer of modern art for the global south and Arab countries; he is also one of the first of his generation to envision painting as political art and activism. The current display focuses on a specific time of defeat and disillusion for a whole generation of Arab artists and intellectuals, in the aftermath of the “Six Days War” led by Israel and their allies (a war title which a lot of Arab activists consider propagandist, preferring to call it “The Defeat of 1967” or simply the “June 1967 War”). This persistent ideological wound became the symbol of failed dreams for the “Arab Nation” or Arab states alliances – including the short but emblematic Egyptian-Syrian achievement of the United Arab Republic.
Another major failure, to which Abdalla will respond through the paintings on display here, is the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat program of “opening up” (Infitah) the Egyptian economy and give way to political compromise with the US and Israel – Abdalla assimilating this period to a vast state of Coma for all Arab people and territories.
In a collective statement by a group of Egyptian artists exiled in Paris (including Abdalla), published in the Egyptian local journal Al-Dustur, on 5 December 1977, one can read: “This disaster is far greater than the defeat of June 1967. Rather, it approaches the scale of the disaster that took place in 1948 (…) To destroy the Arab people’s noble three decades-long struggle against imperialism and Zionism (…) Sadat is exploiting the stifling economic crisis that Egypt is currently facing (…) We must resist this betrayal of our nation or be crushed under the wheels of global imperialism for generations to come.”
The works presented here reflect Abdalla’s transformation of the Hurrufiyyah aesthetics, to achieve his own way of “Arab Letterism”. It claims for a deeply experimental, non-decorative, politically committed and non-commercial use of the Arabic letter...
Category
1970s Abstract Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"F*ck Bunny" Mixed Media Painting 65" x 44" inch by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"F*ck Bunny" Mixed Media Painting 65" x 44" inch by Ben Cope
2023
Mixed media oil on wood
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus State University with a BFA in cer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Musée Marmottan
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique artwork by Fatima El-Hajj.
Artist was born in Lebanon in 1953, graduated from the Lebanese University’s Fine Arts Institution, the completed a second degree at the Leningrad...
Category
2010s Contemporary Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
DANIEL SAMPER AVENDAÑO (COLOMBIAN, b. 1980)
“I explore the art overlapping paint lines and dots that are dispose systematically over canvas, giving a three-dimensional character to the work, making the silence shadow and the inevitable movement to take leadership.” –
Daniel S.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2021 “Pendiendo de un Hilo” Galeria Arte Alto, Medellin, Colombia.
2015 “Fronteras” Galería Naranjo & Velilla, Medellin, Colombia.
2014 “Movimiento Paciente” Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogota, Colombia.
2012 "Los capricho del agua y del viento", Galería Alcorriente, Bogota, Colombia.
2011 "Espacios Develados", Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Galería 18 PTY ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
2014 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
ART FAIRS:
2019 ArtParis, Paris, Francia. Galeria Mark Hachem...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$8,936
Orange Rods
Located in PARIS, FR
DANIEL SAMPER AVENDAÑO (COLOMBIAN, b. 1980)
“I explore the art overlapping paint lines and dots that are dispose systematically over canvas, giving a three-dimensional character to the work, making the silence shadow and the inevitable movement to take leadership.” –
Daniel S.
INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS:
2021 “Pendiendo de un Hilo” Galeria Arte Alto, Medellin, Colombia.
2015 “Fronteras” Galería Naranjo & Velilla, Medellin, Colombia.
2014 “Movimiento Paciente” Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogota, Colombia.
2012 "Los capricho del agua y del viento", Galería Alcorriente, Bogota, Colombia.
2011 "Espacios Develados", Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS:
2016 Galería 18 PTY ciudad de Panamá, Panamá.
2014 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2013 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia.
2012 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia.
ART FAIRS:
2019 ArtParis, Paris, Francia. Galeria Mark Hachem...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Steel, Stainless Steel
$5,361
Air
Located in PARIS, FR
Unique artwork by artist Sara Shamma.
Sara Shamma is a renowned painter whose works can be found in both public and private collections around the globe. Shamma was born in Damascus, Syria (1975) to a Syrian father and Lebanese mother. She graduated from the Painting Department of the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus in 1998. She moved to London in 2016 under the auspices of an Exceptional Talent Visa where she currently lives and works.
Shamma’s practice focuses on death and humanity expressed mainly through self-portraits and children painted in a life-like visceral way. Her works can be divided into series that reflect often prolonged periods of research, sometimes extending over years. Shamma believes that death gives meaning to life, and rather than steering away from a subject that is increasingly taboo in contemporary culture, she considers the impact of grief and deep internal emotions. The Syrian conflict has a distinct impact on the way that Shamma portrays her subjects. Working mainly from life and photographs, the artist uses oils to create a hyper realistic scene, using transparency lines and motion to portray a distant and deep void.
Shamma has previously taught at the Adham Ismail Fine Arts Institute in Damascus, and alongside her practice has always had a strong dedication to sharing her knowledge with the next generation of artists. She was a member of the jury for The Annual Exhibition for Syrian Artists held by the Ministry Of Culture, in Damascus, 2006.
Shamma believes in helping others and has been supporting the United Nations World Food Programme since 2010, during which time she produced Fighting Hunger., sold by Christie’s Dubai in 2012 with all proceeds going to the WFP. Shamma has participated in a number of solo and group exhibitions including: “London”, Art Sawa Gallery (Dubai, 2017); World Civil War Portraits, The Old Truman Brewery (London, 2015); Diaspora, Art Sawa Gallery (Dubai, 2014); Q, Royal College of Art (London, 2013); Birth, Art House (Damascus, 2011); Love, 360 MALL (Kuwait, 2009); The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Annual Exhibition, The Mall Galleries (London, 2013); Nord Art 2012 organized by KiC – Kunst in der Carlshütte (Büdelsdorf, 2012); UAE Through Arabian Eyes, (Dubai, 2008); Syrian Artists, Souq Wakef Art Center (Doha, 2008); Panorama of Syrian Arts, Catzen Arts Centre at The American University (Washington D.C, 2007); (shortlisted) International Painting Prize of the Castellon County Council, (Castellon 2005), Castellon and the Municipal Arts Centre of Alcorcon, (Madrid, 2005-2006); Women and Arts, International Vision...
Category
2010s Contemporary Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
$14,000
"FTR" Mixed Media Abstract Painting 36" x 24" inch by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"FTR" Mixed Media Abstract Painting 36" x 24" inch by Ben Cope
2022
Photo on deconstructed paper with oils and paint pigments
Mixed media oil on wood
Ready ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Resin, Wood, Mixed Media, Oil, Pigment
Cactus and bird
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Born in Umm al-Fahm in 1982, Karim Abu Shakra was raised in a family renowned for its passion for art and creativity.
The artist says about his artwork: “I ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled 5
Located in PARIS, FR
Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied
Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy
of Fine...
Category
2010s Middle East - Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
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