Basel Dahman
San Fransisco , CA United States
Basel Dahman is an emerging contemporary artist born in Syria, works and lives in Bay Area California United States. His artwork has quickly became a full time practice after graduating from a fine arts college. Basel’s artwork has been collec... More
Artist Statement:
Basel Dahman is an emerging contemporary artist born in Syria, works and lives in Bay Area California United States.
His artwork has quickly became a full time practice after graduating from a fine arts college. Basel’s artwork has been collected worldwide and regularly exhibited nationwide.
His work primarily depicts emotional representations of traumatic experiences brought back to life in a positive light, elements of the aftermath of the Syrian war (still ongoing war until today) and the Syrian culture including islamic geometric patterns and Arabic calligraphy and otherworldly surroundings.
Basel’s subjects are conceptualized through an exploration of pencil and digital revision, using his documented past work as a means to revisit and expand on the themes and motifs featured in his paintings. The final compositions are achieved by building layers of acrylic paint, followed by an intuitive application of heavily bodied acrylic or oil mediums, also using metallic leaf sheets in special parts of his compositions.
His artwork has quickly became a full time practice after graduating from a fine arts college. Basel’s artwork has been collected worldwide and regularly exhibited nationwide.
His work primarily depicts emotional representations of traumatic experiences brought back to life in a positive light, elements of the aftermath of the Syrian war (still ongoing war until today) and the Syrian culture including islamic geometric patterns and Arabic calligraphy and otherworldly surroundings.
Basel’s subjects are conceptualized through an exploration of pencil and digital revision, using his documented past work as a means to revisit and expand on the themes and motifs featured in his paintings. The final compositions are achieved by building layers of acrylic paint, followed by an intuitive application of heavily bodied acrylic or oil mediums, also using metallic leaf sheets in special parts of his compositions.
Education:
2018 Bachelor of Fine Arts – Painting and Drawing Department of the
Faculty of Fine Arts at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria.
Faculty of Fine Arts at Tishreen University in Latakia, Syria.
Exhibitions:
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Come Together, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2018 The Guilty Face, Al Hekmieh Gallery, Latakia, Syria.
2017 In The Deep, Tajalliyat Gallery, Damascus, Syria.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Annual Fall (The Syrian Art Days 2018), Khan As'ad Pasha al-|Azm, Damascus, Syria.
2017 Candelabra 4, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2016 Candelabra 3, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2016 Candelabra 2, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2019 Come Together, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2018 The Guilty Face, Al Hekmieh Gallery, Latakia, Syria.
2017 In The Deep, Tajalliyat Gallery, Damascus, Syria.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 The Annual Fall (The Syrian Art Days 2018), Khan As'ad Pasha al-|Azm, Damascus, Syria.
2017 Candelabra 4, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2016 Candelabra 3, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
2016 Candelabra 2, Abbey Road Gallery & Cafe, Latakia, Syria.
Artistic Influences:
Pablo Picasso, Caravaggio, Henri Matisse, Alexander Calder, Lucian Freud, Edvard Munch, Gustav Klimt.
Artist Tags:
figurativism, figurative art, expressionism, contemporary art, modern art, abstract
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