The Paradises of Jihad Abu Sleiman at ArtScene Gallery Carpets of Light and Color, Geometries Woven with Eastern Dreams

Like a Lebanese Dutch mountain carpet it is a painting by Jihad Abu Sleiman, currently on view at Art Scene Gallery, where an exhibition of the artist’s works runs from May 18 to 28 (acrylic on canvas, as well as pastel and mixed media on paper).

How closely this “carpet” resembles an Eastern dream: a rug woven of light, dawn, and radiance indeed, a paradisal garden drawn from the landscapes of Mount Lebanon. These four evocations the Dutch carpet, the Eastern dream, the rug, and the garden coalesce into a single, patient and sustained pictorial endeavor. Its foundation rests on a refined aesthetic shaped by the sensibility of Eastern light, the “voracity” of pure, dazzling color, and a mastery of craft, professionalism, geometric structuring, and chromatic variation.

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