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secretary } opening night photos by mohammed alkandari
Posted on October 27, 2014 1 Comment
Listen to Amazed by Poe Finally my brother Mohammed’s long-awaited photos from Secretary opening night. I love that he shoots in black and white, and when he shoots in color it’s always so vibrant. I can’t thank him enough for always being so supportive. Big hug.
secretary } opening night photos by jenny casanova
Posted on October 24, 2014 Leave a Comment
Listen to Woe Be Gone by Ani DiFranco, off the Sombreve playlist: Apart from having the coolest name ever, Jenny Casanova took some really lively photos at the opening of Secretary. She was the lady with the red-cased mini-iPad standing in the corners taking candid shots.Thank you, Jenny, for sharing these with me.
secretary } let the preps begin!
Posted on October 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
Yesterday the crew at the Sultan Center and I began preparing for my exhibition next Tuesday. It’s a relief to begin but my brain is all over the place. There are so many details that I have to see to and still a few ideas that need to be tested out. I am taking a […]
muhawwil (transformer) by monira al qadiri
Posted on January 27, 2014 Leave a Comment
I’ve always liked Monira Al Qadiri. Not solely for her talent but because she is humble and obsessive and laughs when she talks about her work. I didn’t know what to expect when I visited the Sultan Gallery last night to see Monira’s Muhawwil. And I’m so glad I didn’t, because I think the impact […]
Saturday Gallery Hop
Posted on June 9, 2012 Leave a Comment
I enjoyed a solitary game of gallery musical chairs this morning (ok one was Wednesday afternoon). I like galleries that open on the weekend because Saturday’s a day I often wonder what to do. So visiting an art gallery is as ideal as it gets.
Huda Lutfi|Zan’it Al-Sittat|The Sultan Gallery
Posted on May 15, 2011 2 Comments
I can’t believe it took me this long to finally make it to Huda Lutfi’s exhibition Zan’it Al-Sittat. Honestly, I just forgot and remembered late last week that this jewel existed in the midst of Sabhan’s warehouses and factories. I walked into the gallery and squeaked with delight (I think I may have even quietly […]
Reminiscing Kuwait II: A Tale of a Country|By Ali Sultan & Hamad Al Saab
Posted on April 20, 2011 5 Comments
Both a celebration of and a requiem to Kuwait’s past, Ali Sultan & Hamad Al Saab’s Reminiscing Kuwait II reads like a story which has prematurely reached it’s happy ever after in the sixties and witnessed a steady decline ever since. I do, however, also think it’s a story of hope. Although my first impression when I […]
Exhibition 50/20|The Sultan Gallery
Posted on February 3, 2011 Leave a Comment
I finally managed to make it to The Sultan Gallery this morning for a much-anticipated group show Exhibition 50/20. Most of the artists exhibiting here, when you put them in a room together, you’re going to get something like this: the ugly beautiful, the beautiful ugly, gender mish-mashes, political hodgepodge, religious under-, over- and […]
PrettyGreenBullet Exhibition Drawing
Posted on November 11, 2010 1 Comment
Because I’m always showing videos and slideshows of my works in progress, I thought it would be a good idea to turn the tables and photograph others and their creative processes. So I set up a little work station and let people do their thing. Artists include Yasmeen Dimashkie, Yousef Abu-Ghazaleh, Khaled Abu-Ghazaleh, Zainab Abu-Ghazaleh, […]
PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition
Posted on October 12, 2010 3 Comments
I have started the official countdown to my upcoming exhibition, PrettyGreenBullet|The Exhibition. Just typing this has aroused the dormant butterflies in my stomach. I’m not going to go into details of the exhibition because, although I have a general feel of what I want, I know my ideas and thoughts will shift, expand and possibly […]
Teddy B’s Exhibition
Posted on October 6, 2010 3 Comments
I went to the highly anticipated (well, I was excited!) Teddy B exhibition last night at the Sultan Gallery. As expected, the gallery was swarming with Kuwait’s haves, have-nots, and would-probably-like-to-have-a-little-bit-mores. I’m not going to go into the noble little stories of Teddy, you can find those here. But I will talk about the exhibition […]
Teddy Bee, My Girls & Me
Posted on September 26, 2010 1 Comment
I finally finished the painting this morning. Click here for the Facebook invite, and here for Teddy’s blog.
Laura Boushnak’s Photos: Yellow Tape Portraits Part III
Posted on September 26, 2009 7 Comments
The finale of Laura Boushnak‘s little trilogy: the exhibition.
Laura Boushnak’s Photos: Yellow Tape Portraits Part II
Posted on September 26, 2009 Leave a Comment
This is the second segment of Laura Boushnak‘s photos of my exhibition: preparations for The Yellow Tape Portraits Exhibition at the Sultan Gallery.
The Yellow Tape Portraits
Posted on September 24, 2009 1 Comment
These are photos from my last exhibition at the Sultan Gallery, entitled The Yellow Tape Portraits. The show ran from the 10th to the 12th of February, 2009. For more on these paintings please click on the image above. Photos by Mohammed Alkandari
