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Artist Ummah

like Hiba and Hanane is included in Contemporary Muslim At of North Carolina. Pictured below is “The Invitation” (2023). With over 750 in person and online participants from the Triangle Muslim community, Ummah’s first community interactive art project asked for participants to make the intention to be “Invited” to perform the Holy pilgrimages, Hajj and Umrah. This traveling canvas visited several mosques and Muslim spaces, where participants inserted pins around the Ka’bah which represented themselves and their loved ones. While pinning their dot, they did Du’a for Allah to call them on this spiritually intense and challenging journey, the goal of which is cleansing of the heart and purification of the soul. The end result was a canvas symbolic of a community’s collective anticipation, yearning, and hope to be Invited.
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Hanane Jamili

is a native of Raleigh, NC, is a painter and instructor with a distinctive style that blends abstract art with Arabic calligraphy, and- like Hiba– is one of the creatives included in Contemporary Muslim Art of North Carolina.

About the piece below Hanane says “this painting captures the unwavering resistance of the beautiful people of Palestine. Their courage inspires the ordinary person to overcome hardships through ‘tawakul’ which is the God consciousness, and trust in God’s plan.”

Through her work, Hanane has raised over $15,000 to various charities and local organizations. Her complete collections can be found at artsybyhanane.com.

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Yuan-wen Wang

Yuan-Wen is an artist originally from Taiwan who has been living in Barcelona since 2008. Her abstract paintings are a unique blend of her Asian roots and the diverse experiences of living in different cultures, with varied expressions that aim to connect with audiences. For Yuan-Wen, painting is a record of her inner life experiences and emotions, inspired by the landscapes, dance, the universe, and the world around her.

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Michael Hambouz

gets a mention by Two Coats of Paint in their Hudson Valley (and vicinity) Selected Gallery Guide: March 2024 for “Loves Cats, Hates Catastrophes” at Elijah Wheat Showroom. He likes to play with language and optics and is not always dedicated abstractionist- Hambouz’s delicately crafted works of art, infused with an autobiographical element, break a mold of surface and allow viewers to see differently.

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Max Bill

was in the Zurich Concrete school along with Verena (and others) which was one of the staunchest formalist movements of the last century. Bill said their Art “without external reference to natural phenomena or their transformation” and that it was “the expression of the human spirit, intended for the human mind, and it is of that sharpness, clarity and perfection that must be expected from works of the human spirit.”

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Lyubov Popova

I encourage my students to pick at least one abstract art work that resonates each week and wrote a few sentences about it. One of them chose Lyubov recently (reminds me of Arthur). Popova was one of the first female pioneers in Cubo-Futurism. Through a synthesis of styles she worked towards what she termed painterly architectonics.

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Verena Loewensberg

Born in 1912, Swiss artist Verena Loewensberg was a leading figure of the influential Zurich school of concrete artists. The only female member of the group, which also included Max Bill, Camille Graeser and Richard Paul Lohse, Loewensberg distinguished herself through her oeuvre’s formal and chromatic flair. In her work, structured oil compositions are animated by wide-ranging color and shape, yielding a precise yet poetic art. Hauser & Wirth has organized Kind of Blue to celebrate the same.

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Charlotte Posenenske

Curator Alexis Lowry traces the playful quality of Charlotte’s sculptures, drawings, and photographs, illuminating their connections to her Minimalist contemporaries along with broader socio-political concerns on Dia’s blog in the context of “Charlotte Posenenske: Work in Progress” which he curated.

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Simon Hantaï

Over at the Brooklyn Rail, Tom suggests that Simon (1922–2008) realized in his later painting that making a mark upon the world can be seen as an act of hubris or a frank recognition of the limits of unique inscription (after having disproven to himself the moral efficacy of the former).

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Cris Gianakos

(from the 2019 essay This strange, intoxicating “Almost Nothing” by Yorghos Tzirtzilakis) In discussing the work of Cristos Gianakos one can only start from reconsidering a question: what is the current meaning of that form of contemporary art most people call ‘minimal-ism’? In this case minimalism does not stop at a sketchy, formalized, rational version or at a belated celebration of ‘littleness’; instead it goes on to a dispersion which is, in fact, in tune with the character of our times and our culture.”

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