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Woven with Her Brush paintings by Zohra Ben Hamida
Where
The Gallery
2425 Virginia Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20037
202.338.1958
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When
Jan 21, 2011
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Woven with Her
Brush
Paintings by Zohra Ben Hamida
At the Jerusalem Fund Gallery
21 January - 4 March 2011
Opening reception
Friday, 21 January 2011, 6:00 -8:00 p.m.
Paintings by Zohra Ben Hamida
At the Jerusalem Fund Gallery
21 January - 4 March 2011
Opening reception
Friday, 21 January 2011, 6:00 -8:00 p.m.
Artist Zohra Ben
Hamida says of herself, “I am an Arab and
Berber by ancestry, Tunisian by birth,
Mediterranean and African by a lucky chance,
American by destiny, and who I am today by
choice.”
In her paintings
at The Jerusalem Fund Gallery, color is the
theme. “ The blazing sun straddling the cool
shades over the desert in Saudi Arabia,
memories of the bright garments adorned with
gold and silver fibulae my Berber grandmother
always wore with such pride; colors encountered
every day, the colors of the bougainvillea and
jasmine, indiscriminately lending their beauty
and fragrance to modest and luxurious houses
alike; a bigger than life icon inhabiting a
Roman church for hundreds of years, still
calling attention to itself with its dazzling
gold-leaf garment, bright colors, sprinkled
everywhere you look, reminding us that beauty
exists around and within us, reminding us that
beauty will always prevail.”