COMING SOON
Found in Translation:
The Art of Steven Naifeh
Will South, chief curator
The Columbia Museum of Art announces
the opening of Found in Translation: The
Art of Steven Naifeh, on view May 17
through September 1, 2013. The CMA
is proud to host this, the first major
American museum showing of the complex
work of this multi-talented speaker, writer
and painter.
Steven Naifeh is an Arab-American both
by lineage (his grandparents were born
in a part of Syria that is now Lebanon
and Jordan) and by upbringing. As the
son of diplomats, he spent his childhood
throughout the Middle East—in Jordan,
Iraq, Iran, Libya, and Oman as well as
the United Arab Emirates He also lived
in Pakistan and Nigeria. As a young man
in 1975, Naifeh had an exhibition in Abu
Dhabi, as well as other exhibitions in the
Islamic world—in Jordan, Pakistan, and
the Muslim cities of Kano and Kaduna in
Nigeria. His art was recognized then for its
subtle beauty and simplicity, the serenity
and inevitability of its symmetrical patterns
and geometrical designs, its lyricism and its
pristine pitch.
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