Rohena Alam Khan
July 4 - July 30, 2023
@ Gary Manuel Salon / Pioneer Square
Featured Image: 90s Bop (Pink), Mixed Media on Canvas (Diptych)
You Know The Vibe
You Killed The Vibe
Artist’s Statement:
Sometimes, I am just moved by a beat and want to see where my paint brush takes me. Sometimes paint talks to me through its colors.
I give it life and each piece dances to its own orchestra and symphony.
YKTV captures key artworks from the past decade. During this time, I went from painting extreme abstract pieces to narrative storytelling tales of my life and culture to no limit abstract expressionism with paint spatter. My paint brush seeked social issues, justice, news circling injustice, inequality, and my own journey of self-discovery and exploration.
As I leaning more into other forms of expression such as dance and filmmaking, I am to keep the vibe alive by balancing my politically charged large-scale portraiture work with ligher, simpler, more humorous paintings.
To know my work is to know #modernBangladesh
Public Viewing at Gary Manual Salon:
Tues 8-6:30, Wed 8:30-7:30, Thu 9-7, Fri 8:30-7:30, Sat 8-6
528 2nd Avenue Seattle, WA 98104
Rohena Alam Khan https://www.artby1971.com/
Rohena is a Seattle-based interdisciplinary documentarian.
Born and raised in Dhaka, Bangladesh, she studied Journalism and Fine Art during her undergrad years at Winthrop University in South Carolina. Upon embarking on a career as a copywriter at McCann Erickson, she completed another degree in Graphic Design from Raffles International College in Bangkok, Thailand.
Rohena’s love for news permeates all facets of her creative practice. Her work has a deeper focus on social issues plaguing the universe and can take the shape of a news story, documentary film, advertisement or painting. Her painting style varies from abstract expressionism to narrative storytelling. Rohena’s paintings have been exhibited in galleries of America, Thailand and Bangladesh. She often explores layers of a life of migration, war, patriotism, pop culture, psychology, and politics.
Rohena’s goal is to introduce the world to the thinking process of a modern-day Bangladeshi woman.
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