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{Short Biography}
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1948, Afaf Zurayk graduated from the American University of Beirut with a BA degree in Fine Arts in 1970, and pursued graduate studies at Harvard University, obtaining an MA degree in Fine Arts in 1972. She taught studio art and art history at Beirut University College [now the Lebanese American University] in Lebanon, and drawing and painting in Continuing Education at the Corcoran College of Art and Design and Georgetown University, both in Washington, DC. She currently teaches painting at the American University of Beirut and the Lebanese American University, both in Beirut, Lebanon.
==Artist Statement==
==Artist Statement==
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{Description of the artist
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From Afaf Zurayk
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"I dedicated myself to painting professionally when I was 28 years old, during the civil war in Lebanon. Concentrating on my art helped me come to terms with all that was happening around me and enabled me to translate my feelings into images. I painted in oil and refined my skills at ink drawings. Focusing on the human form, I sometimes portrayed it as active, comparing the nude to landscape, and sometimes as passive, in drawings that expressed my helplessness in facing the world.
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After I moved from Beirut to Washington, DC in 1983, I came to rely on mixed media as a technique. I continued to paint portraits and the human form, as well as some paintings of nature, evoking its power to celebrate both solitude and majesty.
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Working with mixed media allowed me to explore my vision of the interdependence of elements in creating a whole. While each element (medium) is treated as an independent entity, it is realized as such only through contrast with the other elements (media). The painting is thus a dance choreographed to balance a variety of ‘movements’ within a single sphere."<ref>http://www.afafzurayk.com/statement.html</ref>
==Exhibitions==
==Exhibitions==
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* 2012 Janine Rubeiz Gallery | Beirut, Lebanon. “scripted on water”, two-artist exhibition with Cornelia Krafft
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{Solo
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group exhibition history}
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* 2010 maqam gallery | Beirut, Lebanon. [artist book: My Father. Reflections. Photography by Noel Nasr]
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* 2008 janine rubeiz gallery | Beirut, Lebanon. [mixed media paintings on paper, oil paintings on canvas]
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* 2001 Janine Rubeiz Gallery | Beirut, Lebanon. [watercolor
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acrylic paintings on paper]
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* 1997 Janine Rubeiz Gallery | Beirut, Lebanon. [mixed-media paintings on paper and canvas]
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* 1997 ohio northern university | Ada, Ohio. [mixed-media paintings on paper]
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* 1995 foundry gallery | Washington, DC. [oil paintings on paper]
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* 1994 theatre de beyrouth | Beirut, Lebanon. [mixed-media paintings on paper]
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* 1993 foundry gallery | Washington, DC. [mixed-media paintings on paper]
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* 1991 foundry gallery | Washington, DC. [mixed-media paintings on paper]
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* 1987 addison/ripley gallery | Washington, DC. [ink and watercolor paintings]
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* 1980 goethe institut | Beirut, Lebanon. [oil paintings on canvas and ink drawings on paper]
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* 1978 smuggler’s inn | Beirut, Lebanon. [watercolor paintings on paper]
==Publications==
==Publications==
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{Publication history}
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* “My Father. Reflections” [2010], a personal rendition of a complex relationship through photographs of Afaf Zurayk's clay sculptures
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* “Lovesong” [2011] is a celebration of love through Zurayk's poetry and painting [Rimal Publications]
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* “Drawn Poems” [2012] is a portfolio of ink drawings
==Major Works==
==Major Works==
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{Notable works
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* ''Mahaba''
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nine small-scale abstract paintings combining poems under layers of paint, part of the opening exhibition of the Arab American National Museum
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"IN/VISIBLE"
==External links==
==External links==
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{Link to artist
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[http://www.afafzurayk.com/ Afaf Zurayk
's website
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==References==
==References==