Exhibition
17 September – 3 October 2010
paintings by
Ahmad Alkarkhi
Memories Revisited, Ahmad Alkarkhi’s new exhibition at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, showcases his intensely worked abstract expressionist paintings. Hot colors, dense brushstrokes and a pentimento of architectural and calligraphic references reflect his vivid memories of the Iraq he was forced to flee. These new paintings invoke strong feelings of beauty and loss, while providing a passage to the new reality of his life as a painter in the United States.
Highly successful in his native Iraq, Alkarkhi and his family were forced to flee to Syria. His successful exhibitions at the Free Hand Gallery in Damascus sustained him until he was able to acquire refugee status in the U.S. in 2009.
