Artist
Mahmoud Hamadani
Armita Raafat
Untitled, 2015
Resin, plastic, fabric, mirrors,
paint, Sumi Ink
38 x 9 x 18 in
Armita Raafat
Untitled, 2015
Resin, plastic, fabric, mirrors,
paint, Sumi Ink
38 x 9 x 18 in
Samira Abbassy
Dept. of Nuclear Medicine – EKG, 2014
Charcoal on paper
44 x 30 in
Keren Benbenisty
Mare Nostrum, 2016
Artist Fingerprints with ink on
painted wood panels
44 x 72 x 2 in
Wafaa Bilal
The Things I Could Tell…, 2015
Hand-cast crystal
4 1/8 x 3 ¼ x 1 ¾ in
Mahmoud Hamadani
Untitled (Endless Roads) II, 2008
Ink on paper
51 x 70 in
129 x 178 cm
Amir Hariri
Oh Domi(No) IV, 2014
Pencil, ink, watercolor and white-out on paper
9 x 12 in
Amir Hariri
Oh Domi(No) IV, 2014
Pencil, ink, watercolor and white-out on paper
9 x 12 in
Noa Charuvi
Workers #5, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 in
Noa Charuvi
Workers #5, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 in
Noa Charuvi
Workers #5, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 in
Noa Charuvi
Workers #5, 2016
Oil and acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 in
Dana Levy
Minerals
Light-box and duratran print
36 x 48 in
91 ½ x 123 cm
Shai Zurim Installation
Shirin Gallery NY is pleased to present EFA + Middle East, which features works by nine Middle Eastern artists from the Studio Program at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts. Curated by Bill Carroll, Program Director of the EFA Studio Program, the exhibition surveys some recent works created by Middle Eastern artists based in New York.
ARTISTS INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION
Samira Abbassy, Keren Benbenisty, Wafaa Bilal, Noa Charuvi, Mahmoud Hamadani, Amir Hariri, Dana Levy, Armita Raafat, Shai Zurim
The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (EFA) is a 501(c)(3) public charity, dedicated to providing artists across all disciplines with space, tools and a cooperative forum for the development of individual practice. Founded with the purchase of a pre-war skyscraper in Midtown Manhattan in 1998, the EFA Studio Program provides emerging and established artists with subsidized studio spaces. In line with the EFA Studio Program’s mission to promote international artistic exchange and dialogue, the program includes artists hailing from countries all over the world who maintain practices in NYC. In partnership with Shirin Gallery NY, this exhibition takes a closer look at those EFA member artists with ties to Middle Eastern countries.
Bill Carroll, Director of the EFA Studio Program, is the curator of the exhibition. He has been involved in the New York art world for over thirty years: as Director of the Charles Cowles Gallery and the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in NYC, and has worked for the Dia Art Foundation, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Nancy Graves Foundation. Mr. Carroll has curated numerous exhibitions, teaches an MFA course at Pratt Institute, and exhibits his own paintings at the Elizabeth Harris Gallery in Chelsea.