WEEK SIX, NOV 4 , Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed combines text and imagery to create visually narrative
paintings that document internal and external geographies. Her
work, influenced by conceptual art, comics, and landscape painting,
is informed by autobiography and environment, to create illustrated
documents of place and experience.
Her paintings, prints and artist books have been shown at galleries
and art institutions throughout the United States and internationally,
including exhibitions at Clementine Gallery and the Jersey City
Museum. Her work is in the public collections of the US Department
of State, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, The Jersey City Museum,
Zimmerli Art Museum, Hunterdon Museum of Art, Noyes Museum of Art,
Montclair Art Museum, Newark Public Library, New Jersey State Museum,
and Morris Museum. A large number of her works were commissioned
for the permanent collection of the Ritz Carlton Hotel in New York.
Dahlia has received awards from the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual
Studies Workshop, The Newark Museum, ArtsLink, The Dodge Foundation,
Women’s Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts,The
NJ State Council on the Arts and most recently a grant from The
Joan Mitchell Foundation.
She received her MFA from Columbia University, and lives and works
in New Jersey.
http://www.dahliaelsayed.com
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