Exhibition
11 January – 1 February 2013
paintings by
Lukman Ahmad
This January, Lukman Ahmad creates colorful mosaic-like paintings in acrylic on canvas, depicting his themes of “Hope,” “Freedom,” and “Harmony,” as well as “Conflict.” Using abstract shapes as well as Kurdish symbolism in the figures of horses, dancers and rams, Ahmad’s paintings dissolve into swirls of motion. His images at first engender pleasure in their almost playful composition, but further careful examination offers the viewer far more serious imagery and thought-provoking content.
Ahmad has exhibited widely in Syria, Turkey and Switzerland before coming to the U.S. Currently a member of the Arlington Arts Gallery, he has had group and solo exhibits at Washington, DC’s Foundry Gallery, Fondo del Sol, The Art League and Arlington Arts Gallery in Virginia, as well as the Ackland Art Museum in North Carolina. Visitors to the Jerusalem Fund Gallery have already heard his virtuoso playing of the Kurdish oud.
See Lukman’s comments from the Opening Reception below:
Meet the Artist
-Lukman Ahmad