Mental Mediations: paintings by Ammar Qusaibaty
The Jerusalem Gallery, in Washington, DC is happy to announce a solo art show by Ammar Qusaibaty scheduled to open on Nov 20 under a theme of Mental Mediations. These abstract images, two-sided painting on transparent sheets, express the artist’s dual influences of metaphor in the Arabic language and the rigor of abstract mathematics.
According to the artist the world is best exposed as a system of processes, change, and motion. It is a continuous and dynamic exchange between an observer and an observed that encodes states in multi-hierarchal cognition unlimited by the sequential sense of time and space. Exposing this interaction through the whole body of the canvass and its minutia becomes the primary purpose of expression.
Influenced by selective causality, automatism, action painting, minimalism, and situationism, the art thesis is characterized by continuous and long strokes, fluid motion, incomplete geometric compositions and emergence. The artist has stretched the boundary of the canvass by two-sided painting on transparent sheets allowing realization of infinite forms. In addition to painting on reflective sheets, the work depicts disjoint unity to show relationships between a whole and its parts.
An artist with unconventional training, Dr. Ammar Qusaibaty received his Doctoral degree in Cognitive Informatics from the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. He holds two Masters degrees from Oxford University and the University of Michigan.
Dr. Qusaibaty has exhibited in Europe and North America. He lives and works in Washington D.C.
Opening reception to meet the artist: Friday, 20 November 2009, 6:30 - 8:30 pm
For more information visit:
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/ht/display/EventDetails/i/7200/pid/1459
Media Contact:
Natalie O’Connor
Email: art@zaygal.com
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