Showing posts with label Paintings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paintings. Show all posts

Sunday, 19 December 2010

Hayv Kahraman



Very reminiscent of the Persian Islamic painting, Hayv modernizes the narrative - A Sufi Swan Lake. I'm in love, it plays on many levels that I feel deeply relates to me, my culture and religion.




From her exhibition Waraq (paper) Illuminates, the three out of ten document some of her own experiences of being an immigrant traveling from her native Iraq into Sweden, Italy and the US.

Monday, 4 May 2009

Matt Small


does these fabulously bursting portraits. ah. He paints on pieces of metal and you feel the painting instantly. In two words: Poised Hastiness.