Exhibition
30 September – 28 October 2011
paintings by
Adam Chamy
Palestinian-Texan artist Adam Chamy explores identity, myth, and home through a series of family portraits and installation works that weave themes of migration, roots, and belonging. Faces of Texan farmers hang side by side with Jerusalem merchants. One has centuries-old ties to land through frontier
settlement of the American South. The other, an enterprising global Levantine merchant family, faces a broken homeland severed by colonization and war. Together these fragmented myths and stories formulate an identity questioning the idea of home and form a story of a bicultural Arab-Americana.
Born in Fort Worth, Adam graduated from George Washington University in 2009 and received a BA in International Affairs with minors in art, art history, and anthropology. His works have exhibited in group shows in the Washington area, Texas, and Spain. This is his first solo show.
