Gallery 76 Schedule of Exhibitions 2010
Somewhere Else
An Exhibition by Nelda Gilliam & Carrie Robertson Wright
Artist Statement
Nelda Gilliam
My creative process is like having a conversation. I interact with the canvas, adding and taking away marks, until I reach the point where the canvas accurately reflects my current state of mind. So for me, creating each piece is an organic process, dependant on my spiritual and emotional well-being at that time. The finished work is an accumulation of my knowing each mark has been placed correctly and is justified in its place on the canvas. Therefore there is a harmony reflected in both my mind and on the canvas when I complete a piece, causing me to feel at one with my creation.
Carrie Robertson Wright
Images and words; to take you to another place.
Works influenced by the words of dreamer
Carrie graduated with a degree in Constructive Textiles from Dundee College of Art in Scotland, UK. After gaining her degree, she completed a Post Graduate in Tapestry Weaving. She has lectured at Dundee College of Art and the University of Middlesex in England and has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad.
Opening: Wednesday 15th September 2010
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Gallery 76
Dubai International Art Centre
Jumeria Beach Road
Street 75b, Villa No 27
Near Town Centre
This exhibition will continue until Wednesday 29th September 2010.
 Visions An Exhibition by Abdulla Al Jassem
A graduate of the prestigious College of Fine Arts, University of Damascus, artist and interior designer Abdulla Al Jassem was born in 1981 in Deir Ezzor, a picturesque Syrian city by Al Furat river.
Having graduated third in his class for his bold brush strokes, earthy colour combinations and uncomplicated juxtapositions, Al Jassem has received critical acclaim for his unique ability to create complex textures through layering. His focus on abstract art using oil paints affords him the flexibility to create unpretentious work with no boundaries, and his tendency to use natural colours lends his work a genuine, yet forlorn feel. The 29 year-old artist's work is intense, private and often confusing to those unable to ascertain familiarity within them as they search for tangible objects to comprehend.
Among others, Al Jassem's previous exhibitions include Peace Festival at Latakia's Ministry of Knowledge, Space at the Arab Educational Centre in Damascus, Fine Arts Preponderates Exhibition at the French Educational Centre, also in Damascus, and the Fine Arts Exhibition in Deir Ezzors Ministry of Knowledge. Visions is his first exhibition in Dubai, where he currently resides and works as an Interior Architect.
Opening: Wednesday 19th May 2010
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Gallery 76
Dubai International Art Centre
Jumeria Beach Road
Street 75b, Villa No 27
Near Town Centre
This exhibition will continue until Wednesday 2nd June 2010
Motion An Exhibition by Beatrijs Tavernier
Private view:
Saturday, May 1st from 6.00 pm
With MOTION, Belgian artist Beatrijs Tavernier, presents her latest paintings. By only using the colors Red and Blue, in contrast to Black and White, Tavernier succeeds in framing the essence of motion and emotion.
MOTION shows a dramatic change of style vis-à-vis Taverniers earlier work. With this new series she once again proves to be a versatile artist.
Opening: Saturday 1st May 2010
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Gallery 76
Dubai International Art Centre
Jumeria Beach Road
Street 75b, Villa No 27
Near Town Centre
This exhibition will continue until Saturday 16th May 2010
16th - 30th January 2010
To be&but how& An Exhibition by Tiina Salo This is an exhibition about existence by Finnish artist Tiina Salo, who has been wondering life in Dubai for four years.
Her 'soul mate', the wooden puppet has helped her to express some feelings of being. The series is painted with acrylic and drawn with charcoal pen. In another series birds are sharing the same problems with humans; viruses and the lack of quality air.
In the acrylic paintings nature elements like flowers are symbols of individual. Sunflower"s life tells a story of an ego on its different stages. Still the artist believes in being and finds positive opportunities to survive.
Biography of Tiina Salo
Tiina Salo-Devries was born in 1963 in Rauma, Finland. She grew up and was exposed to an environment full of mysterious and natural palettes such as forest, snow, rocks and sea waves. In 1987, she earned a 5 year Textile Design Degree from Finland; in 2000 BA and Specialisation Studies in Handicraft and Design from Kuopio Academy of Design in Finland and in 2002 she received a Masters Degree in Fine Arts from USA.
From 1988 until now, Tiina has sustained an active record of solo, group and collective exhibitions both locally and internationally. Her textile artwork has been integrated in public places and facilities. With Artist's Group Liite she has made numerous installations, exhibitions and performances. Meantime, she has lectured many topics related to arts and crafts.
Her inspiration and theme of work evolve around study of natural elements, light and colour, found objects and human spirits. Tiina"s philosophy is driven by the fact that art is an endless learning endeavour.
Opening: Saturday 16th January 2010
Time: 5.30pm
'Textures' A Pottery Exhibition by Homa Farley Potter/Ceramic Designer and her students.
Opening: Wednesday 3rd February 2010 Time: 7.00pm
This exhibition will continue until Wednesday 17th February 2010
Homa Vafaie-Farley"s pieces in this exhibition, have been created with various methods including diverse textured glazing techniques.
Homa has been passionately involved with designing, creating and teaching pottery for many years. These unique pieces are the results of more than two decades of experience in working with clay, glazes and various glazing and firing techniques.
Homa's students will also be exhibiting their varied and inspiring work during this exhibition. This group consists of many students from diverse backgrounds and nationalities, brought together through their love for clay and pottery.
We hope that this exhibition will be an inspiration for all potters and for all who love the Art of Pottery and ceramics.
'Brushstrokes' An Exhibition by Sarah Aswed at Gallery 76
Opening: Sunday 21st February 2010
Time: 7.00pm
This exhibition will continue until Sunday 7th March 2010
Sarah Aswed was born on January 2nd 1973, in Oxford England. She is originally from Libya. As a child Sarah was seldom seen without a sketchbook and drawing pencil.
Sarah attended art school in the UK and graduated with a B.A in graphic design and illustration in 1992. She later went on and completed many art courses in Central Saint Martin"s School of Art. Despite Sarahs degree, she was always passionate about fine art and painting and she has painted for the past 15 years. She has participated in many exhibitions but this is her first solo exhibition BRUSHSTROKES.
She has travelled extensively and lived in North Africa before coming to Dubai in 2006. Her travels have influenced her and the cultures and people have coloured her work.
What you will see in this exhibition is a selection of work that represents Sarahs journey and growth as an artist. Her work is very personal. The bold imagery is full of passion and intensity; her "brushstrokes speak her feelings and her stories.
Every canvas has a story, every story has a dream and every dream has a reflection. These are my reflections.
FOUR ARTISTS-FOUR STATEMENTS + ONE
An Exhibition at Gallery 76
BEBA EID HAMATI
Artist Statement:
I am always intrigued by human relationships, and how we view ourselves privately and in the light of the other. Underneath the layering of time and experiences, our true self is forever metamorphosing. Expressed in a series of transient moments, our body language and proximity to those around us is the only honest giveaway signal of our inner world. In my recent work I have built the surfaces by depositing, coating, dripping, digging and recoating layers upon layers of non-matching substances to create a unique stratum. The image becomes secondary as it spills out its content.
Artist Profile:
Beba Hamati holds a Bachelors degree in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, LAU, Lebanon 1979, and a City and Guilds of London institute certificate in Working Designs, Ceramic Skills, London, UK 1992. Holder of the Sheikh Zayed Fine Arts Award 1978, 1979, she has lived, taught and participated in group exhibitions in Beirut, Maidenhead, Singapore and Dubai, the last one being 'Five Artists Five Statements' Gallery 76, March 2008. Solo exhibits include 'Imprints' XVA Gallery, Dubai 2005, and 'Basamat' ALBA Beirut, Lebanon, 2006.
CARRIE ROBERTSON WRIGHT
Carrie graduated with a degree in Constructive Textiles from Dundee College of Art in Scotland, UK. After gaining her degree, she completed a Post Graduate in Tapestry Weaving. She has lectured at Dundee College of Art and the University of Middlesex in England and has exhibited extensively in the UK and abroad.
Carrie Wright plays with words, images and concepts in order to provoke thought.
Sometimes serious, sometimes humorous.
DIMA HAMATI
Artist Statement:
As designers our role is to visually communicate information to the viewer. Whether it is objective or subjective information, we practice old and execute new ways to send the message out through our own creativity. Design must have a reason for it to be successful, and that is exactly what I am working towards. I think we must use our artistry to fulfill the niches of the unknown and create new and inventive ways to fix the inefficient, spread the word and solve the problem.
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Artist profile:
Dima Hamati is currently studying Graphic Design at Bath School of Art and Design in England.
NELDA GILLIAM
My work is a metaphor for words. Words, which are verbal and written forms for self-expression, give us the ability to relate thoughts, feelings and ideas to one another. Words, language, are a creation from the human need to express the beyond, and our inner life. The works from my exhibitions are visual statements which stand as metaphors for stories from my imagination or for a state of mind there and then.
VAL KWAAN
Val Kwaan is a British painter trained in London in the 1960s at Goldsmiths College and Camberwell School of Arts. Her interests and education extend to the study of history and philosophy and a cynical enjoyment of politics. She has lived in the Middle East since 1973 and in consequence has been fortunate to witness the oil-driven development wave and the enormous changes that it has brought from the simplicity of traditional Arabian life to the unique powerhouse societies of today.
She is not the first generation of her family to have traveled extensively or lived their lives outside the cultures which nurtured them. Her mothers family is Polish. Her husband is Chinese from South Africa. There were uncles and aunts in the African Colonial services. Her father traveled extensively through East Africa and Arabia in the 1940s. Family history has given her an objective sense of her place in the world and many reasons to question her nations Imperial past.
The portraits on show in this exhibition are reflections on the unease of Empire of master and servant, of white and black and of the assumptions which influence the British view of the world that once ruled. This collection of paintings is titled Echoes of Empire.
Opening: Wednesday 10th March 2010
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Gallery 76
Dubai International Art Centre
Jumeria Beach Road
Street 75b, Villa No 27
Near Town Centre
This exhibition will continue until Wednesday 24th March 2010
A Group Exhibition by winners of the Student Art Exhibition held by Dubai International Art Centre.
In March 2009 Dubai International Art Centre hosted an exhibition for the students of the centre. The first prize for the successful students was the opportunity to host a professional exhibition at Gallery 76. The exhibitors are as follows:
Judy Shinnick
Judy is delighted to be included in this years prize winners exhibition at Dubai International Art Centre as it was here that she picked up her brush again after many years. This award together with the recognition she received at the 2008 Plein Air Painting Competition in Ireland spurred Judy on to open a studio near her home there. An invitation to exhibit at the prestigious Wexford International Opera Festival in October 2009 followed. In addition, she has recently been selected and accepted as a member of the Ulster Watercolour Society.
Judy tries to paint in a loose and lively way which, although risky, can also be exciting and occasionally surprising. Even traditional subjects can be given a contemporary twist without obscuring the story.
While Judy will always love the technical difficulty and immediacy of watercolour, she is currently exploring the engaging power of mixed media.
Johanne Flanagan
Johanne Flanagan is a proud New Zealander who from an early age was interested in the visual and musical arts. She began lessons in classical music at the age of seven and through her primary and secondary education she won many arts and crafts prizes. Johanne has always been artistic but she found her true calling when she became an expat wife in Santiago, Chile in 2000 and began sketching the local Mapuche Indians.
Before moving to Dubai she worked on a number of themes; portraiture being one that she returns to again and again as she loves drawing people. Here in Dubai she is drawn to the construction workers on the building sites. She realises that these men have left their families to come here and earn money to give their loved ones at home a better quality of life. She never tires of watching the workers and wonders who will remember them when the spectacular building is occupied. She feels her paintings have historical merit and when displayed will invoke memories of the feverous construction activities turning semi desert into a city of unequalled beauty.
The Worker series of paintings are the start of many, with growing numbers of people in each painting.
Preeti Kaur
Preeti Kaur Anand is a Dubai based artist who was born in India. She holds a Masters Degree in Marketing and a Diploma in Interior Design and worked in the corporate world for many years. Coming from a family of artists and art lovers she has always been encouraged be creative from an early age.
Preeti fondly works with many media, Acrylics, Charcoal, Inks and Oils she also likes to use lots of texture in her artworks. Her art depicts strong use of colours with strokes of a Palette Knife coupled with the softness of the brush. Preetis work is very contemporary with a touch of realistic forms and a lot of suggestive work. Art for her like any other artist is a simple expression of self mood, thoughts, feelings, colours and style onto a plain canvas.
Preeti has sold many art pieces and has taken many commission works. She currently has some of her work on display at Monod Art Gallery in the Mall of the Emirates.
Valerie Duvieusart
Valerie was born in Belgium and has lived in France, Burma and the UAE, and is now currently based in Geneva where she works as a Visual Art teacher in Primary and Secondary schools. She painted for several years with Acrylics and a Palette Knife which enabled her to work spontaneously and quickly. More recently she has been working with clay, wire and any other objects she finds interesting. Nowadays her artwork is often a combination of the two mediums.
Valeries artworks mainly deal with the subject of female identity. It has evolved from realistic pictures to more abstract, where curves and bright colours have great importance. Her cultural environment is often a starting point for her inspiration.
Opening: Sunday 28th March 2010
Time: 7.00pm
Venue: Gallery 76
Dubai International Art Centre
Jumeria Beach Road
Street 75b, Villa No 27
Near Town Centre
This exhibition will continue until Sunday 11th April 2010
 Second Solo Exhibition for Kate Toledo Inspiration from Medieval Persia a collection of impressions Dubai 31 January 2010 Kate Toledo, a local artist in Dubai will open her second solo exhibition at the Dubai International Arts Centre (DIAC) after focusing her large canvas work on impressions of ceramics from Persia. Her dedicated collection will be displayed at Gallery 76 in Jumeirah starting April 14. Kate Toledo started collecting impressions from her early days as a child. The upbringing in Tanzania, New Zealand and her later life in Brazil left her mind filled with colours and impressions that have shaped her artistic life. Kate is an artist who does not think small. Her paintings are large, her colours are strong and her themes are bold. Inspiration from Medieval Persia shows the collector side of me said Kate. I love porcelain and its patterns and I try and give them a spin through my art. What is minute on porcelain gets a different dimension on my canvas. Kate has been a resident in Dubai for almost 4 years now and looks for regional themes to inspire her paintings. Her exhibition last year was influenced by the old traditional areas of Dubai, the souks and the local architecture. Kate calls herself an impulsive painter, hence her medium of choice are acrylic paints as they dry so much faster than oil. She was influenced by the Fauve movement in her times at university, something that still vaguely reminds one of Gauguin and Derain. Les Fauves (French for The Wild Beasts) were a short-lived and loose grouping of early 20th century Modern artists whose works emphasized painterly qualities and strong colour over the representational or realistic values retained by Impressionism. Kates exhibition Inspiration from Medieval Persia will open on 14 April at Gallery 76 in Jumeirah, from 7-10pm. Editors NotesAbout Kate ToledoKate Toledo, a British born subject, born in Tanzania was brought up in Africa and New Zealand. She is widely traveled and has spent her last 20 years of her life in Brazil before moving to Dubai 4 years ago. Kate works in oil, acrylic. She also paints ceramics. Kate is also the exhibitions director at DIAC.( Opening: Wednesday 14th April 2010 Time: 7.00pm Venue: Gallery 76 Dubai International Art Centre Jumeria Beach Road
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