Art on a Postcard Winter Auction, Lots 401-520

About 

Visual artist Alymamah Rashed's surrealist paintings investigate the discourse of her own body as a Muslima Cyborg of the post-internet generation; fluctuating between the east and the west. 

Education 

Rashed received her MFA in Fine Arts at Parsons School of Design in 2019 and her BFA in Fine Arts at The School of Visual Arts in 2016. 

Select Exhibitions/Awards 

2021, Alymamah Rashed Solo Exhibition, Tabari Artspace, Dubai, UAE 
 
2020, I Have Disappeared Into You, Virtual Solo Exhibition Gallery BAWA, Kuwait 
 
2015, My Mind Made You Beautiful, Solo Exhibition at Parsol Projects, New York, NY 
 
 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS 
 
October 2021, As We Gaze Upon Her curated by Banat Collective, Warehouse 421, Dubai, UAE 
 
October 2021, Tawr Exhibtion, Mono Gallery, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia 
 
2019, Beneath Them Was Forever, Parsons MFA Fine Arts Thesis Exhibition Curated by Kathleen Forde 
 
2019, Zinc-Finger Like Folds, Group Exhibition, Curated by Rae Lavande Pellerin and Paloma Rosenzweig Castillo New York, NY 
 
2018, Convergence, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, The New School, New York, NY 
 
2018, European Literature Night, Czech Center New York 
 
2018, How an Artwork Should Speak, 25 East Gallery, Parsons School of Design 
 
2015, Abstract, Group Exhibition at Parsol Projects, New York, NY 
 
2014, Dig, Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 

Gallery Representation 

Tabari Arstpace, Dubai, UAE 
Hunna.Art 

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork   

 
Rashed's notion of the Muslima Cyborg unites the fleshed body, the thobe, and a combination of the two which comes to form a third space - the one that she emits onto her canvas. Rashed engages with the cyborg not as a mechanical object but in the sense of spiritual intelligence, as a motor, or a form of technology, as opposed to artificial intelligence or programming. Referencing late Algerian modernist pioneer Baya Mahieddine's idiosyncratic form of autobiographical portraiture, her art negotiates her female subjectivity, regional folklore and the everyday banal objects that Rashed encounters as well as the rapid social shifts that she has witnessed such as the rapid industrialisation of the Gulf region. Her watercolors explore her spiritual body through finding stillness within an eternal fluctuation. 

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