TPFF Traveling Art Show

Toronto Palestine Film Festival Traveling Art Show
www.tpff.ca

Artist: Falak Shawwa

Artist Statement:

“Love Captured…” are photographs taken in Palestinian refugee camps across Lebanon, capturing raw and untouched images that reveal the splendor of children’s adaptation to an environment most would consider shatteringly harsh and ruthless. The photographs give a glimpse as to how these children can illuminate daily life in their own way through their enchanting liveliness and charm.

My appreciation goes to Rimal Publications for sponsoring my exhibitions. Through their belief in me, I was able to show my images to many.

In March 2011, the collection was exhibited at SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) in London, part of an event called “Celebrate Palestine”. The event celebrated Palestinian culture and offered a glimpse of the reality of the Palestinians struggle for freedom.

In May 2010, I exhibited my photographs at a fundraising gala dinner held by the Welfare Association in BIEL, Beirut. Celebrating Art and Culture in the Palestinian Refugee Camps, hosting some of the most influential Palestinians in world. In April 2010, the same collection was exhibited at T-Marbouta cafe in Beirut to celebrate Land Day in 2010.

For more information please visit my website www.falakshawwa.com

Artist: Khadija, an International-Canadian artist and paint about social justice, women’s rights, violence, and peace.

Artwork 1:
Title: Enough / Stoning at the wall
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Size: 24” x 18”
 
Artwork 2:
Title: Women relocate
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 18” x 24”

KHADIJA  ISMAIL

Thornhill, ONTARIO                               Phone: (647) 444-3379                      Email: Khadisal@hotmail.com

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003            401 Richmond, “SAVAC annual Members show”, Toronto

2003            TRINITY BELLWOODS PARK, “Queen West Art Crawl”, Toronto

2003            CLUB OV, “Fantasy Fashion”, By Gallery 1313, Toronto

2003            BAYVIEW VILLAGE ART FAIR, Toronto

2002            University of Toronto, “South Asian Art”, BY SAVAC AND SALCO, Toronto

2002            Public Exhibition Space, “ART-O-MATIC 2002”, Washington, DC

2002            CADA VEZ GALLERY, “Art Bayou”, Washington, DC

2002            FRANKLIN SQUARE GALLERY, “Toast to Independence”, Washington, DC

2002            A SPACE, “Erotica”, BY SAVAC AND CIDA, Toronto

2001            VOLT GALLERY, “Art Group show”, Washington, DC

2000            DUPONT CIRCLE GALLERY, “Art on Foot”, Washington, DC

2000            Public Exhibition Space, “ART-O-MATIC 2000”, Washington, DC

1997            HOLIDAY INN GALLERY, “Art on Fabric”, Karachi, Pakistan

 

JURIED SOLO EXHIBITION

2000            Solo Exhibition, Washington Institute for Creative Activity, Washington, DC

 

JURIED GROUP EXHIBITION

2009    TORONTO CITY HALL ROTUNDA, “Refugee Rights Week”, Toronto. 

2004            THE LEARNING CLUB & FINE ART GALLERY, “Glimpses of a S.Asian heritage”, Mississuaga

2004            ROY THOMPSON HALL, “Islamic Art”, Toronto

2002            THE WORLD BANK, “Dialogue in Diverse Views”, Washington DC

2002            HARBOURFRONT COMMUNITY GALLERY, “The Changing face of South Asian Art”, Toronto

2002            TORONTO CENTRE FOR THE ARTS, “Understanding Pluralism”, Toronto

2001            THE WORLD BANK, “Reflections on the New Millennium”, Washington, DC

2000            DEL RAY ARTISAN’S CENTER, “Fire in Art”, Arlington, Virginia

 

CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

Stoiber & Associates, Washington, DC

 

PAINTING COMMISSION

Private residences

 

ART TRAINING

The George Washington University, Washington, DC – Printmaking and Etching

Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Massachusetts – Oil Painting

University of South Florida, Florida – Figure Drawing

Karachi Art School, Pakistan – Sculpture

 

SKILLS AND MEMBERSHIPS

Awards:            Honors in painting, printmaking, and figure drawing.

Member:             SAVAC, TAC, WEI, CARFAC, DCCAC

Maintaining careers in marketing of non-profits, health sciences, visual art, and writing.

           

 

Artist: Basil AlZeri Title: Unknown Size: 20” x 20” Email: basilalzeri@gmail.com I am a multidisciplinary Palestinian Artist that lives/works in Toronto. My work uses performance, video, installation, food, found objects and mixed media/ collage

Artist: Basil AlZeri

Title: Unknown

Size: 20” x 20”

Email: basilalzeri@gmail.com

I am a multidisciplinary Palestinian Artist that lives/works in Toronto. My work uses performance, video, installation, food, found objects and mixed media/ collage


Artist: Rehab Nazzal

Size:  17” x 11”

Title: Checkpoint Signs

Email: rnazzal@rogers.com

Rehab Nazzal is a Palestinian born multidisciplinary artist who grew up under the Israeli military occupation. She has studied and worked in several countries in the Middle East and Eastern Europe before immigrating to Canada in 1995. She holds a BFA, University of Ottawa, Post Grad Studies, International Economic Relations, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria, and B.A. in Economics, Damascus University, Syria. Nazzal has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally.

Artist: Ibrahim Abusitta Size: 18” x 22” Title: The Palestinian We exist with a predetermined history, ancestry and culture. I exist in a time of culture clash and during the evolution of traditions, as global diversity influences newer generations (whether secular or religious).  As an Easterner living in a Western land, I wanted to analyze my struggle with my identity. I want the performance of entering the lake and trying to remove the text to translate to saying I can’t forget who I am and where I come from. Even though I have been taken out of my element and have adapted to my new environment, my history is embedded in me.  There is two parts to the performance, the addition of text onto my body and the failed attempt to remove it. The performance of having the text written on my body is a representation of our history and roots. We know where our past comes from, but we don’t actually know since it is from before our time. It is only bits of information and knowledge that is passed down to us through the generations. This is why I wanted to perform in a dark space with minimal lighting. The author of the text is also represented in this fashion, in the dark and barely seen.

Artist: Ibrahim Abusitta

Size: 18” x 22”

Title: The Palestinian

We exist with a predetermined history, ancestry and culture. I exist in a
time of culture clash and during the evolution of traditions, as global diversity
influences newer generations (whether secular or religious).  As an Easterner
living in a Western land, I wanted to analyze my struggle with my identity. I want
the performance of entering the lake and trying to remove the text to translate to
saying I can’t forget who I am and where I come from. Even though I have been
taken out of my element and have adapted to my new environment, my history is
embedded in me.
 
There is two parts to the performance, the addition of text onto my body
and the failed attempt to remove it. The performance of having the text written on
my body is a representation of our history and roots. We know where our past
comes from, but we don’t actually know since it is from before our time. It is only
bits of information and knowledge that is passed down to us through the
generations. This is why I wanted to perform in a dark space with minimal
lighting. The author of the text is also represented in this fashion, in the dark and
barely seen.

Artist: Amy Seigel

My name is Amy Siegel and I am an artist and educator. I work with youth and adults, using theatre, film, and photography as a way to tell stories. I have worked around the world; in Korea, Palestine, and in 2010 I co-coordinated and facilitated a cross-Canada media production and literacy tour for teen girls. I have had work shown at Film Pop, Inside Out, and I have had photographs in several different publications. I attended the Boston Palestinian Film Festival with the group Voices Beyond Walls and the short films I helped youth make in Jerusalem. I am a recent graduate of the Adult Education and Community Development program at OISE with the Centre for Arts-Informed Research.

Artwork (left to right): 48 Women, Tree Poet

                                   Silhouette Boy, Man Minaret

Size: 20” x 20”

Email: amy.lou.siegel@gmail.com

Artist: Hanadi Bader, a Palestinian artist

Artwork 1: 24” x 24”

              2: 40” x 30”

              3: 24” x 24”

Email: hanbader@hotmail.com

Artist: Nadia Saad, an amateur artist, Lebanese heritage, born in Canada. Artwork: B’ism’illah Email: nadia.y.saad@gmail.com Size: 22” x 28” Artist Statement: The name of the piece is ‘b’ism’i’llah’ - in the name of God, which is written in Arabic on the hand of the woman in the painting. This has a double meaning in the painting. B’ism’i’llah is a common oath that can be uttered to call on God for help, which the woman is doing. I also include it as a tragically ironic statement that violence is carried out in the name of God (well, as we know, that’s just one of the reasons often used to mask greed). Behind her, her village blazes - this was an image from the news that I couldn’t shake.

Artist: Nadia Saad, an amateur artist, Lebanese heritage, born in Canada.

Artwork: B’ism’illah

Email: nadia.y.saad@gmail.com

Size: 22” x 28”

Artist Statement: The name of the piece is ‘b’ism’i’llah’ - in the name of God, which is written in Arabic on the hand of the woman in the painting. This has a double meaning in the painting. B’ism’i’llah is a common oath that can be uttered to call on God for help, which the woman is doing. I also include it as a tragically ironic statement that violence is carried out in the name of God (well, as we know, that’s just one of the reasons often used to mask greed). Behind her, her village blazes - this was an image from the news that I couldn’t shake.