Dahlia Elsayed

Last updated

Dahlia Elsayed
Born1969 (age 5455)
New York City, United States
NationalityAmerican
Education Barnard College
Columbia University School of the Arts

Dahlia Elsayed (born 1969) is a New York-based painter, writer, and teaching artist whose work explores the relationships between language and landscape. Her work has won awards and been shown at galleries and art institutions internationally.

Contents

Early life and education

Born in New York City, Elsayed grew up in New Jersey. She graduated magna cum laude from Barnard College with a BA degree in English in 1992. In 1994, she received her M.F.A. from Columbia University School of the Arts. [1] [2] Elsayed's mother is Armenian and her father is Egyptian. For three generations, her family had to move from continent to continent due to political and religious persecution. [3]

Career

Elsayed uses the process of writing and image-making to create visual narratives through installation and painting. [4] She draws inspiration from conceptual art, comics, cartography and landscape painting. [3] In her work, Elsayed often overlaps maps from the past and the present with people and events, serving as records of internal and external geographies. Her interest in mapping stems from her family's history of migration. [3] "Writing and painting are close processes for me and language is central to my work, both as formal element and subject matter. For over a decade, I have been making text and image based work that synthesizes an internal and external experience of place, connecting the ephemeral to the concrete." – Dahlia Elsayed [5] Elsayed's psychological maps on paper read like ironic, self-deprecating versions of 19th-century phrenology busts. [6]

Elsayed connects the psychological with the topographical. Overlapping symbols of flags, signs, borders, geologic forms with metaphors, lists, and idioms. In her work, images, locations, and language negotiate and continuously reshape each other. [5]

Elsayed is a professor at LaGuardia Community College who teaches painting and drawing. [2]

Exhibitions and awards

Elsayed's art has been exhibited at galleries and art institutions internationally and throughout the United States, these include Hunterdon Museum of Art, The New Jersey City Museum, Montclair Art Museum, Morris Museum, The Newark Museum, New Jersey State Museum, The Zimmerli Museum, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, among others. Elsayed has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, Women's Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, and The NJ State Council on the Arts. [7] She completed a residency at The Center for Book Arts, NYC, in 2014.

In 2022, Elsayed, as part of a collaboration with the Newark Museum of Art and Gallery Aferro, created one of two artist murals for the United Airlines club in Newark Airport. Elsayed's abstract and textural mural evokes the murals of Arshile Gorky, that were seen at airport from 1936-1967. [8]

Selected solo exhibitions

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ben Shahn</span> American artist

Ben Shahn was an American artist. He is best known for his works of social realism, his left-wing political views, and his series of lectures published as The Shape of Content.

Gazbia Sirry was an Egyptian painter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Anjolie Ela Menon</span> Indian artist

Anjolie Ela Menon is one of India's leading contemporary artists. Her paintings are in several major collections, including the NGMA, the Chandigarh Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum. In 2006, her triptych work "Yatra" was acquired by the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, California. Other works also been a part of group exhibitions including 'Kalpana: Figurative Art in India', presented by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR) in London's Aicon Gallery in 2009. Her preferred medium is oil on masonite, though she has also worked in other media, including Murano glass, computer graphics and water colour. She is a well known muralist. She was awarded the Padma Shree in 2000. She lives and works in New Delhi.

Christopher Uchefuna Okeke, also known as Uche Okeke, was an illustrator, painter, sculptor, and teacher. He was an art and aesthetic theorist, seminal to Nigerian modernism.

Jatin Das is an Indian painter, sculptor and muralist. He is counted amongst the leading contemporary artists of India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art</span>

Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art was an artist-centered space in Newark, New Jersey, United States founded in 1983, designated a Major Arts Organization by New Jersey's State Council on the Arts.

Contemporary art in Egypt refers to visual art, including installations, videos, paintings, or sculptures, developed in the Egyptian art scene. While the contemporary art scene is mainly concentrated in Cairo and Alexandria, it is developing fast with the emergence of spaces for artists, and support from the public or from abroad. Many Egyptian artists use the Egyptian contemporary art scene as a ramp toward the international art scenes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Leopold Matzal</span> American painter

Leopold Charles Matzal was a 20th-century Austrian-American visual artist. He was a realistic painter, known in New York City and northern New Jersey for his society portraiture and also, later in his career, for murals.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Valeri Larko</span> American painter (born 1960)

Valeri Larko is an American painter of urban and industrial landscapes. She is known for her cityscapes, painted en plein air.

Michael Lenson has gained widespread recognition as one of America's most important realist painters. Who Was Who in American Art called him "New Jersey's most important muralist." He is valued for his skill as a draftsman and the technique he achieved by close study of the Old Masters.

Leo Dee was an American artist and teacher. A native of Newark, New Jersey, he achieved first regional and then national prominence for his "incredibly detailed" and realistic silverpoint drawings which conveyed "the softest and most subtle transitions of tonal values."

Enid Bell Palanchian, known professionally as Enid Bell in her early career and later on as Enid Bell Palanchian, was an American sculptor, illustrator and teacher born in London, England.

Tova Beck-Friedman is an American artist, sculptor, writer and filmmaker based in New York City. Her work has been exhibited in the United States, Australia, Israel, Europe, and Japan. Her work is in the collection of Grounds For Sculpture, Yeshiva University Museum, Newark Museum, Sculpture Garden, the Shoah Film Collection and the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington DC.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Minetta Good</span> American painter (1895–1946)

Minetta Good, also known as Minnetta Good (1895–1946), was an American painter and printmaker who was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA). Her work often depicted farm scenes, family life, and/or transportation.

Jerry Gant was an American visual artist, poet, performance artist and educator.

Hilda Hiary is a Jordanian visual artist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hugh Mesibov</span> American artist (1916–2016)

Hugh Mesibov was an American abstract expressionist artist who began his career as a federal artist for the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression and later became a member of the 10th Street galleries and part of the New York School during the 1940s-60s. His work has elements of the mid-20th-century New York artistic experience such as Surrealist and Abstract Expressionist and figurative aspects across several media such as watercolor, oil, and acrylic as well as etchings, lithographs and monoprints. His work has received a global reputation and is included in many collections in the United States and worldwide.

Zeinab Abd al-Hamid was an Egyptian artist known for her colour saturated paintings of Egyptian cities. Abd al-Hamid used an array of media, from watercolours to oils. While art historians struggled to place her works in a single art movement, the general consensus is that her paintings are part of the Egyptian modernist movement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Serena Bocchino</span> American artist (born 1960)

Serena Bocchino is an American contemporary abstract artist working primarily in the realm of painting. Her highly expressionistic style shows a variety of influences from Abstract Expressionism and dance, to Fluxus and jazz music. Like her varied influences, her process is highly improvisational yet technically informed – consisting of language created through an intermingled vocabulary of color, media and technique.

Andrea Belag is a contemporary abstract painter. Belag studied the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture after attending Boston University and Bard College. She was a Faculty Member at the School of Visual Arts, in New York from 1995 to 2021.

References

  1. Oweis, Fayeq S. (2008). Encyclopedia of Arab American artists (1. publ. ed.). Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. pp. 108–111. ISBN   9780313337307.
  2. 1 2 Gorce, Tammy La (January 16, 2014). "A Review of 'Dahlia Elsayed: Hither and Yon' at New Jersey State Museum". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 "Arab American Artists at the 12th International Cairo Biennale". Arab American National Museum. Archived from the original on December 31, 2016. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  4. "Dahlia Elsayed – Lower Manhattan Cultural Council". Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Archived from the original on March 13, 2017. Retrieved March 12, 2017.
  5. 1 2 "Dahlia Elsayed; Hither and Yon". New Jersey State Museum, Trenton. 2009.
  6. "What Are We Still Mapping For?". Hyperallergic. April 25, 2013. Retrieved December 10, 2017.
  7. "About & Bio". Dahlia Elsayed. Archived from the original on December 10, 2017. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  8. Manfredi, Lucas (May 20, 2022). "United's largest club opens at Newark airport". FOXBusiness. Retrieved May 24, 2022.