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Sharq is an nonprofit art space in Los Angeles devoted to
the work of bicultural artists with roots in Sharq - the East - with the aim of showing the diversity and
creativity in this region. Primarily an exhibition space for visual artists, Sharq also hosts events which
involve film, music, and spoken word.
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SHARQ PRESENTS
Three Artists / Many Worlds
An
Exhibition of Works by
Reception: 3 to 7 p.m.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Exhibition Continues: April 28 - May 20 by appointment
SHARQ
Ashen Ovsepjan
was born in Armenia and emigrated to Germany where
she taught, worked, and exhibited as a designer, photographer, and artist before
coming to Los Angeles. A world traveler, her mixed media works begin with the
captured images of her memory, using sources such as photos and mixing them
with other artistic media. This technique, she likes to say, mirrors the different
cultures in which she’s grown up and the many different languages she speaks.
Khalid Hussein
was born in Saudi Arabia, grew up in both the Middle East and the US, and
received a BA in Fine Art and MA in Islamic
Studies from UCLA. He works in a variety of media, focusing on representations
of race, identity, history and violence. His paintings, exhibited in
art galleries and cultural centers in California, imitate the cities of the
ancient world, superimposing multiple images, styles, and cultural
referents, collapsing barriers between past and present, east and west.
Noah Haytin
was born in the Bay Area and earned his MFA from California State University at
Long Beach. He won a Fulbright grant to Morocco,
has traveled and exhibited internationally, and now splits his time between
Marrakech and California. Interested in the fluid nature of identity, he creates
collages in what he calls a menagerie of lost and found imagery from traditional
drawing and painting and the digital domain, juxtaposing the modern and the ancient.
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