David Najib Kasir Solo Exhibition
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David Najib Kasir Solo Exhibition
January 6 - Jan 27, 2023
620 Wealthy St SE Grand Rapids MI 49503 cultivategrandrapids.org - hello@cultivategrandrapids.org
Cover Image: Girl <greater than> Baba in Decimals, 2020, Acrylic on Canvas
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David Najib Kasir
David Najib Kasir, a Milwaukee-based painter whose work is comprised of personal narratives and cultural history or events. In recent years, Kasir’s work draws on stories from his parents’ journey to the U.S. and the current crisis from where they migrated (his mother migrated from Syria, and his father, Iraq). As an artist born here, Kasir reveals his cultural identity in paint and designs to inform viewers on the recent wars in Syria, in hopes of helping them develop an understanding of the millions of voiceless Arabs now living in chaos and disarray.
By using beautiful traditional Arab designs called Zellige to dress the figures in his work, Kasir shows the beauty of a culture and the tragedy as families try to hold on to it and each other as everything around them falls apart.
Kasir has a BFA in painting from Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (2001) and is the proud father of two young adult daughters (one being an artist themselves).
Beyond Cultivate’s exhibition, Kasir’s artworks has been exhibited in the Museum of Wisconsin Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design, the Trout Museum of Art, and he has been a Mary Nohl Fellowship Finalist in 2019, 2021, and 2022.
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Handshake Equations x Foxes + All the Rubble After 2021, Oil & Acrylic on Panel, 49” x 48”
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Girl <greater than> Baba in Decimals 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 48”
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Land Mines Divided by Helmets & Zeros 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45” x 45”
6 Subtract Small Additions/ Barbwire Divide 2018 Acrylic on Canvas 42” x 42”
7 Quotient Remainders In Bedrooms + Decreased in Daughters 2021 Oil & Acrylic on Panel 47” x 48”
Divide Limbs/ Fraction Fog 2014 Encaustic and Mixed Media on Panel 11.5” x 11.5”
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Carry the Zero 2015
Encaustic and Mixed Media on Panel 10.5” x 12.5”
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David Najib Kasir
Solo Exhibition
January 6 - January 27, 2023
To purchase items, please consult to our Director of Exhibitions, Kae Pershon at exhibitions@cultivategrandrapids.
Girl <greater than> Baba in Decimals 2020
Acrylic on Canvas 48” x 48” $8000
Handshake Equations x Foxes + All the Rubble After 2021
Oil & Acrylic on Panel 49” x 48” $8000
Land Mines Divided by Helmets & Zeros 2020 Acrylic on Canvas 45” x 45” $6500
Quotient Remainders In Bedrooms + Decreased in Daughters 2021
Oil & Acrylic on Panel 47” x 48” $8000
Subtract Small Additions/ Barbwire Divide 2018
Acrylic on Canvas 42” x 42” $7000
Divide Limbs/ Fraction Fog 2014
Encaustic and Mixed Media on Panel 11.5” x 11.5” $1800
Carry the Zero 2015
Encaustic and Mixed Media on Panel 10.5” x 12.5” $1800
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620 Wealthy St SE Grand Rapids MI 49503 cultivategrandrapids.org - hello@cultivategrandrapids.org
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