مرØبا بكم جميعا
Welcome!
My love of languages extends to art and manifests across mediums. Charcoal came first, an underlying sketch or concept peering through. The constant push and pull of getting lost in painting married to unrelenting curiosity. Every mark, every color, every decision is yours alone. An act of rebellion in concert with your audience.
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At last, I began to consider my mind's disorder a sacred thing.
-Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell
(scrawled on Lee Krasner's studio)
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About Miriam
Miriam Awad is an American-Egyptian abstract artist currently living in Abu Dhabi. With a simultaneous career in public service, she is a creative spirit moonlighting in the world of foreign affairs.
Miriam's work explores the space between drawing and painting and surfs the edge of abstract and figurative. Her process builds on charcoal sketches and building dimension through figures. Through constant experimentation, she captures lyricism in repetition and underwater motion inspired by a love of diving.
Miriam studied figure drawing in California and developed her practice with inks and charcoal. Cherry blossoms will often surface in her work as a proud D.C. native. Work will contain symbols from traveling and living in other countries.
Inspirations include music, the New York School, Magritte, Miro, surrealism, Odile Redon, Zao Wou-Ki, Hokusai, Alexander McQueen, Egyptian art, reptiles, and coral.
Miriam has exhibited in Washington, DC, Stockholm, and on Artsy.
Empower
Growth
Education
Johns Hopkins University – School for Advanced International Studies (2002 – 2004)
Georgetown University (1993 – 1997)
Exhibitions
Northside Social Art Show (Arlington)
Latela Curatorial x Artsy (Online)
Northside Social Art Show (Arlington)
Affordable Art Fair (Stockholm)
Art Mentorship Program (Kasia Krecicka)
The Ode To Gallery (Stockholm)
Juste Gallery (Stockholm)
February 2020
October 2020
June 2021
April 2022
Spring 2022
August 2022
February 2023
Contact
If you have questions or would like to purchase or commission a work, contact me at the email address below or through the website. You can follow my work on Instagram @milabkk
