Qais Alsindy

Artist Statement:

My artworks involve in critical and ironic views of social, political and cultural issues, in which I attempt to convey a message that deconstruct details from our daily life and old memories that I got from my whole life and then synthesize them to get new shapes, thoughts and ideas. Such an attempt is colored by my personal experiences as a dreamer artist for better life, healthier cities and best atmosphere to live in. My artworks tell stories constitute a major anchor in the history of peoples and archiving infinite capriciousness. 
As an expressionist artist, I rely on my theme of my paintings on stories, tales and poems. I confront essential conditions of the human experience and struggle, namely the realities and rituals surrounding desire, fear and hope.
The figures in my paintings dance in woe, or relax in meditation… The images in my art speak of humanity yearning for stability and safety. And finally the conceptions depicted on my canvases are inspired by deliberations of the controversial issues facing our planet, our mother Earth.

Qais Al-Sindy

Education:

• 2004 MFA, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad university / Baghdad
• 2002 Diploma in French language / Cultural French Center / Baghdad.
• 2000 BA, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad University / Baghdad.
• 1989 B.Sc, college of Engineering, Baghdad University.

Exhibitions:

Selective Group Exhibitions 
• 2018 March 15-18. The Other Art Fair- Los Angeles, supported by Saatchi Art.
• 2017 Oct. 28th- Nov. 2nd, Annual Group Exhibition of the Iraqi Fine Artists Association in Britain (IFAA) London- UK.
• 2017 Dec., Iraqi Collective Exhibition- Sultan Bin Ali Al Owais Foundation. Dubai-UAE.
• 2016 Jan. 17th, Five Joint Artists Exhibition (East and West…Crossroads) - Demouzy Contemporary, New York- USA
• 2016 Jan. 15th. Collective Exhibition- (The Night and the Desert Know Me). At Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Washington- DC.
• 2014- Feb. 28th, 6 Artists Exhibit- (Mesopotamian Colors) - Whites Art, Framing & Restoration Gallery in Montrose, California- USA.
• 2013- April 6 to May 19th - Altered Horizons- San Diego Mesa College Museum Studies Altered Horizons.
• 2013- April- The Gulf Festival for Contemporary Plastic Arts.
• 2011 Nov. 'Impulses from Iraq', Group Exhibition- Iraqi Cultural Center, Washington- DC - USA.
• 2011 Oct. 13th,' Mesopotamia Art and Artists in Diaspora', Collective Exhibition of five artists. Edgar Varlea Fine Arts (EVFA) Gallery- Los Angeles, CA-USA.
• 2011 Oct. 1st. 'Out of Iraq, Artists in Exile'- Collective Art Show of three Iraqi generations. THE/ Main Gallery, Ohai, California- USA.
• 2011 June 5th. Group Art Exhibit at HA Gallery- Museum of Contemporary Art-, Los Angeles, CA- USA.
• 2011 June 3th. Home Interrupted: Aircrafts of Iraqi displacement. Michelangelo Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA- USA.
• 2010 Dec.12th-Feb.12th- 12th International Cairo Biennale, Cairo- Egypt.
• 2010 Nov. - Scenery form Memory- three artists' exhibition with Shakir Al-Alousi and Najwa Al-Amen. Iraqi Cultural Center gallery, Washington DC.
• 2010 Sep., Collective show- Annual Chaldean Festival- Ronald Reagan Community Center, El Cajon, San Diego, CA.
• 2010 Aug., (Love Stuck), Collective art exhibition on the Playhouse's Weiss Lawn, art and fashion event with play of (Midsummer Night's Dream). La Jolla- San Diego, CA-USA.
• 2010 Aug, Iraqi- American friendship show, at St. Rophael Church Hall, San Diego, CA-USA.
• 2010 March, Art and Artist of Mesopotamia- Collective exhibition- Art share Gallery- Los Angeles- USA.
• 2010 February- ( Us)- Group exhibition- Qibab Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
• 2010 January- (Small is beautiful), miniature exhibition, Foresight Art Gallery- Amman, Jordan.


 

Artistic Influences:

I was inspired by Picasso, especially when his art had a great impact in the new history, and how his artistic motivation shifted our new world to become a better place to live in. live in the atmosphere of beauty, peace and love.
 

Tags:

impressionism, love, people, square, expressionism, women, lovers, oil on canvas, huge canvas, acrylic