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Tunisian artist Zohra Ben Hamida is Arab and Berber by ancestry. In her paintings she references “the textures and colors that are memories of the domes of mosques that called attention to themselves five times a day, the blazing sun straddling the cool shades over the desert in Saudi Arabia, a country that shaped a good part of [her] young life.”
Happy New Year! Looking back, 2010 was a year of expansion for the Gallery. We increased our virtual presence with an expanded web page, featuring virtual tours, and artist videos.
The Jerusalem Fund Gallery features 25 rare silver prints, taken in the 1920’s and 30’s, of historically significant images of Palestine, such as that of uniformed Palestine Police mounted on camels, and the above image of the Graf Zeppelin dirigible over Jerusalem.
Ahmad Alkarkhi’s new exhibition at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery, showcases his intensely worked abstract expressionist paintings.
Time spent with the Bedouins of Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula, suggested the theme of artist Anna Kipervaser’s July exhibit at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery “the light thread. the dark thread.” refers to the Quran’s instruction about Ramadan, “You may eat and drink until the white thread of light becomes distinguishable from the dark thread of night at dawn.”
This exhibition showcases photographs of Lebanon taken 50 years apart. His father Elias Hakim’s B&W photos document the young Hakim family’s emigration from Lebanon to the US in 1956. Najib’s color photos explore the country upon his return in 2006 after the latest war with Israel.
Ellen O’Grady exhibits drawings from Palestine from her forthcoming book What Ham Saw.
Susan Abulhawa’s masterful writing is delightful to read. She writes with an element of metaphor, undoubtedly owing its origins to the Arabic language, which brings color and feeling to every page of this novel.
Charara’s exhibit “Hueman” features paintings and sculpture in his signature “cartoon” imagery, using whimsy and a cacophony of colors to comment on our common humanity, injustice, the immigrant experience and much more. Enjoy video of Lena Seikaly performing “Love You Madly” from the opening of Adnan Charara’s “Hueman” exhibition at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery on 5 March 2010.
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