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Artist Exhibitions:
Shows between 1997 - 1999
-Orfali Art Gallery- Amman
Jordan
-European Yemini Cultural link
- Sanna Yemen
-French Cultural Center- Sanaa
Yemen
Since 2001 Najwa's work has
appeared at
- Gerson Gallery - Baltimore,
MD
- Langdon Gallery - Carol
County
- Colombia Art Center -
Colombia, MD
- Gallery Unicorn - Baltimore,
MD
- Sassafras Gallery -
Baltimor, MD
- Angelfall...
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Artist Galleries:
Antreasian Gallery/ Baltimore,
MD.
Gallery 211/ Baltimore, MD.
Bromoseltzer Arts Tower/
Baltimore, MD.
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Artist Reviews:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/ent
ertainment/custom/altoday/bal-a
l.bromo01jun01,0,6270046,full.s
tory
http://www.carrollcounty.com/ar
ticles/2008/09/09/features/enco
re/columns/pam_zappardino/pam92
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http://www.carrollcountytimes.c
om/articles/2009/10/22/features
/encore/columns/pam_zappardino/
61_pam_zappardino.txt...
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Collections:
Coming Soon!
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Commissions:
Coming Soon!
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Artist Statement for Najwa Al-Amin
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I love colors. They make life brighter. Pablo Picasso said" Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up". Growing up I forgot about the artist me. One day I decided to look deep into my own self for that forgotten artist, I found her, and the artist became my whole being, ever since.
Najwa's Biography
Najwa is an Iraqi artist living near Baltimore, Maryland. She was born and raised in Baghdad and lived in the capital until the late 1990s. Back when she was a child, she often traveled alongside her father, who was a university teacher and administrator, to Egypt, Morocco, Lebanon and United Arab Emirates. Najwa M. Jasim al-Amin graduated from the American High School in Baghdad and later earned an Engineering degree at the University of Baghdad.
One of her mentors is the Iraqi artist, Nathira al-Kuttab, who lives now in Spain. Another mentor was her late father, Mohamed Jasim al-Amin, an Iraqi poet who introduced her to the milieu of art and literature when Najwa was sixteeen.
Al-Amin's medium is oil on paper, board and canvas. The work celebrates a boundless world of images and figures in soft as well as strong tones. "Wars and conflicts left no colors in the middle east desert's life", she says. "So I put them into my art, to turn sadness into happiness and replace anger with peace" Her paintings express the passion of an ancient culture, and her techniques are as diverse and elegant as the artist herself.
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