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Artist Exhibitions:
Art Students League (NYC) -
Brooklyn Botanical Gardens
(NYC) -
Ogelsby Gallery, 2005
(Tallahassee) - Nan Boydon
Gallery, 2005(Tallahassee) -
Museum of Fine Arts, 2006 and
2007(Tallahassee) - 621
Gallery, 2007(Tallahassee) -
Tallahassee Comunity College
Art Center, 2007 (Tallahassee)
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Most recent:
Group shows:
October 2007,
Agora Gallery, Chelsea, NYC
February 2008,
Icosahedron Gallery, ...
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Artist Galleries:
440 Gallery
440 6th avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11215
718 499 3844
www.440gallery.com...
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Artist Statement for Helene Mukhtar
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In my art, I investigate the uncertainty and unease created by our constant exposure to, among other issues, terrorism, globalization and the destruction of the environment. The purpose of the work is to express these feelings of insecurity in a visually intriguing and challenging way.
My own photographs are usually at the basis of my creative process. They are transferred or glued to the canvas and become a visual jumping point for my painted interpretations. I also use newspapers, maps, music partitions and postcards. These images may or may not have any relationship to one another. In fact, most of the time, I choose images that do not rationally fit together. On one end, they ground my work in reality, on the other end, they add elements of irrationality unbalance or surprise. It is up to me to make sense of it all and reconcile all the elements of this puzzle into a coherent, challenging and intriguing whole. Each piece is different, with its own unique problems and solutions.
In my series “Subways”, I contrast the vulnerability, helplessness and passivity of the subway riders to the hardness of their surroundings: the metal structures, beams, platforms and tunnels. The riders are reduced to “subway legs” which evolve in an angular, distorted and somewhat threatening environment. These paintings and collages were triggered by the subway bombings in London and Madrid and my own experience riding the subway in New York City.
The series “Graffiti” is inspired by student demonstrations in France to protest new labor laws. In these paintings, I choose to express the fear of the unknown and of an uncertain future using organic shapes, curves and rounded edges evolving and swirling in an empty space.
“East West” explores the visual similarities between Western graffiti and images from Eastern societies. This series, which I just started, is inspired by a recent trip to Pakistan.
“Harmony” is an attempt to reconcile and join two geometrical symbols, the circle and the line through the imagery of architecture and music.
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