Osama Khatlan
Abstract Narratives
October 26 - November 15, 2007
Reception:
Thursday November 1, 2007 6-8 PM
Press Release
Osama Khatlan sees himself as much a composer as a painter: "I want my painting to break away from the certainty and closely guarded function of the music and develop its own melody." The eye follows the jazzy abstracts of Osama Khatlan as one might a vibrant, rousing song. With an energy reminiscent of DeKooning, there is the exuberant struggle of the two-dimensional canvas containing the demands of vivacious colors and dramatic form. There is direction on Khatlan's canvases, upsweeps and layers which the eye follows, tracing the shifting boundaries and woven colors. Even in the works with a relatively limited palette, the shapes cradle each other to form a whole--an amazing feat, given the style of such spontaneous abstracts, as they could easily degenerate into a canvas of fragments. The strength of Khatlan's works is both their acknowledgment of this abyss which threatens the work, and their resistance it. These are landscapes of the inner life, and there is order and balance.
Osama Khatlan has been an illustrator, photographer and graphic designer. He has studied at the Florence State Art Institute and has shown his work in Iraq, London, America and Italy.
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