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This is the website of Ayse Turgut, curator and art consultant.
Featured Artist Interview:
Iranian born Samira Abbassy was raised and educated in the United Kingdom, where she studied painting at Birmingham Polytechnic and the Canterbury College of Art. Ms. Abbassy has lived and worked in New York since the 1990’s. Abbassy draws on a wide range of international visual sources, including Indian Tantric drawings, Persian paintings from the Qajar epoch, Goya, Carvaggio and Frida Kahlo...
Samira Abbassy
Upcoming Exhibition
Breath of Life, Roots of Unity
New Paintings on Canvas by Salima Raoui
January 8- February 20, 2009
Opening Reception
Wednesday January 14, 2009 from 4 to 7 P.M.
Treasure Room Gallery at the Interchurch Center
475 Riverside Drive, New York City
Turning Writing into Art
Panel Discussion organized and moderated by Ayse Turgut
Friday March 20, 2009 at 7 P.M.
School of Visual Arts, New York City
A discussion with New York artists exploring the ways in which Arab, Middle Eastern and Islamic literary, poetic and other texts —ancient and contemporary- inform their work...
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