Steven Naifeh: Art, Writing, and Passion for Art Collection.
Date: Tuesday 12 November 2024
Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Venue: Richelieu Amphitheatre, SUAD Campus
Open to public
Abstract
Artist, writer, and collector Steven Naifeh will discuss his work, featured in a solo exhibition at Artbooth Gallery and Abu Dhabi Art. His paintings and sculptures blend ancient Islamic and Arab archetypes with modern international geometric art. A Pulitzer Prize winner, Naifeh will also speak about his biography of Vincent van Gogh and his collection of nineteenth-century art, which focuses on artists significant to Van Gogh, as well as Neoclassical sculptors like Antonio Canova and British portrait painters ranging from Joshua Reynolds to Thomas Lawrence.
About the Speaker
Steven Naifeh is an artist whose works are included in numerous museum and public collections and have been exhibited extensively throughout the Middle East, the United States, Africa, and Asia.
After studying art history at Princeton University, Naifeh received degrees from both the Harvard Law School and the graduate pro¬gram at the Fogg Art Museum of Harvard University, where he collaborated with Glenn Lowry, now Director of the Museum of Modern Art, on a study of the influence of traditional Islamic architecture on the wave of new construction that swept across the region between Morocco and northern India in the 1970s and 1980s. That project took the artist to Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharjah, Kuwait, Riyadh, Jeddah, Cairo, Damascus, Amman, Tunis, Algiers, Fez, New Delhi, and Agra.
Naifeh is also an accomplished writer whose most recent book is Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved. Together with co-author Gregory White Smith, Naifeh has written five New York Times bestsellers, including Van Gogh: The Life, which Michiko Kakutani of the New York Times called “majestic”. Their biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga won the Pulitzer Prize and inspired the Academy Award–winning film Pollock as well as John Updike’s novel Seek My Face.
Naifeh has been profiled in many publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, USA Today, and People, and has appeared twice on CBS’s 60 Minutes.
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