{"id":31157,"date":"2017-11-29T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=31157"},"modified":"2017-11-29T12:47:37","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T17:47:37","slug":"bailey-contemporary-arts-presents-spiritual-vessels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/bailey-contemporary-arts-presents-spiritual-vessels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bailey Contemporary Arts Presents ‘Spiritual Vessels’"},"content":{"rendered":"

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Nov. 29, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Bailey Contemporary Arts (www.baileyarts.org<\/a>) newest exhibit \u201cSpiritual Vessels,\u201d features the paintings of\u00a0Tony\u00a0Khawam\u00a0and the clay ceramic sculptures of Jeff Whyman.\u00a0Khawam\u2019s new collection,\u00a0\u201cSyria –\u00a0Aleppo Urban\u00a0Landscapes,\u201d presents a semi-abstract vision of Syria\u2019s war-torn cities.\u00a0Khawam\u00a0invited Whyman to partner with him on this exhibit as he felt a spiritual connection between their works. The exhibit will run from December 1, 2017 through January 5, 2018. Visit the website for information about the opening reception and artists\u2019 talk.<\/p>\n

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\nKhawam\u00a0stopped painting in 2001 after the events of 9\/11, but picked up his brush again in 2015 having been influenced by the Syrian crisis that ravages his birthplace of Aleppo, Syria.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy primary focus is of my birthplace, the city of Aleppo, with urban scenes of collapsed apartment floors, fallen balconies, curved rooftops and punched holes in the building facades,\u201d\u00a0explained\u00a0Khawam, whose family immigrated to the US in 1976 and became a naturalized citizen five years later.<\/p>\n

\u201cViewers at first glance experience both the sadness of the scene and a hopeful feeling,\u201d explained Juliana Forero, Ph.D., BaCA\u2019s gallery manager.<\/p>\n

Khawam\u00a0accomplishes this paradox by using a colorful palette to paint the neighborhoods by deconstructing the painting with the single stroke method. This allows the work to appear intact while at the same time viewers see the tragic reality of haunting, disturbing scenes. It also offers viewers a unique vision of his application and method, which is evident in the contemporary art direction of his paintings.<\/p>\n

Khawam\u2019s aim is not to focus on the politics of the conflict, but instead to raise awareness in the hope of changing the perception from destruction \u2014 of haunting and disturbing scenes to hopeful, colorful neighborhoods that are filled with life. \u201cThe presence of people is felt without showing human suffering and offers a glimpse of hope for residents to return and rebuild,\u201d continued\u00a0Khawam.<\/p>\n

\u201cSyria \u2013 Aleppo Urban Landscapes\u201d\u00a0paintings series are\u00a0best viewed as\u00a0collage paintings\u00a0of six or more to form one artwork so the viewer can fully experience the depth, sensitivity of the subject and the method of painting up close to examine the expressionist\u00a0fractal patterns of layered accumulation of brush strokes.<\/p>\n

Khawam\u00a0met Whyman during the latter\u2019s solo exhibition at Rosenbaum Contemporary Gallery in Boca Raton and felt an instant affinity for his work.<\/p>\n

Master artist Jeff Whyman has been exploring the expressive possibilities of clay and steel sculpture for more than four decades. He studied with legendary Peter Voulkos who was a leader in both breaking the boundaries between the fine arts and crafts and in creating large scale abstract expressionistic ceramics. Whyman\u00a0uses clay to form the basic shape of a pottery, then he starts adding different shapes of clay and other materials with rapid execution and full energy to finish the process by glazing the ceramic sculpture.<\/p>\n

\u201cJeff has figured out how to create contemporary works of art from an ancient craft and uses it to create contemporary signature style ceramic sculptures. His application and rapid execution of the materials to build a sculpture is similar to my techniques of applying expressionist strokes to construct and deconstruct to create a fragmentation but yet intact paintings,\u201d said\u00a0Khawam. \u201cJeff\u2019s work reminds me of the sculptures I grew up seeing in the national museums of Aleppo and Damascus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bailey Contemporary Arts is located at 41 NE 1st\u00a0Street, Pompano Beach, FL 33060. For more information call\u00a0954-284-0141.<\/p>\n

More information: http:\/\/www.baileyarts.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Nov. 29, 2017 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Bailey Contemporary Arts newest exhibit “Spiritual Vessels,” features the paintings of Tony Khawam and the clay ceramic sculptures of Jeff Whyman. Khawam’s new collection, “Syria – Aleppo Urban Landscapes,” presents a semi-abstract vision of Syria’s war-torn cities. Khawam invited Whyman to partner with him on this exhibit as he felt a spiritual connection between their works. The exhibit will run from December 1, 2017 through January 5, 2018. Visit the website for information about the opening reception and artists’ talk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9780,"featured_media":31156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[280,37,14,93,197],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture-news","category-entertainment-news","category-florida-news","category-pompano-beach-news","category-event-news","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":7465,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9780"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31157\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}