Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper, 1985
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This 1985 show explored the intimacy of narratives found in Americana.It included a mural size painting on wood that married the style of Pennsylvania Dutch barn paintings with Kafka’s story, Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper.The show also included paintings which utilized the folklore technique of “reverse painting”. However, this technique was reinvented by replacing the traditional glass canvas with a metal wire mesh canvas. The resulting effect challenged the conventional foreground/background order of painting on canvas.
Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper, 1985
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This 1985 show explored the intimacy of narratives found in Americana.It included a mural size painting on wood that married the style of Pennsylvania Dutch barn paintings with Kafka’s story, Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper.The show also included paintings which utilized the folklore technique of “reverse painting”. However, this technique was reinvented by replacing the traditional glass canvas with a metal wire mesh canvas. The resulting effect challenged the conventional foreground/background order of painting on canvas.
Izhar Patkin
Izhar Patkin
Izhar Patkin
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
The Exile, 1993
An allegory of the senses as the isolated inhabitantsof a golden Gothic garden in a series of eight oil & gold leaf paintings.
The Exile paintings take a look at the classical theme of the exile from the garden. As in The Perfect Existence in the Rose Garden, the format of these paintings is based on Stefano da Zevio’s fifteenth century painting, Madonna of the Rose Garden, in which the rose garden (a hortus conclusus) is fenced in, but has an entrance open at one end towards the viewer.
The Exile: The Garden Gate
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Garden Wall
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Six Senses
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Six Senses
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Six Senses
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Six Senses
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Six Senses
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum
The Exile: The Six Senses
Oil, leaf, screen
64 x 40 in
Collection of The Guggenheim Museum