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artists: Declaring 2013 a “collaboration year,” butt has been striking deals to share artists with galleries in London, New york, india and Germany. Grey Noise: Warehouse 24, Alserkal Avenue; 971-4-379-0764; greynoise.org. Ayyam Gallery Carbon 12 eclectic work by contemporary artists from around the globe. history Launched in 2008, Carbon 12 jumpstarted alserkal avenue. the gAllerist “i still remember when we were almost the only one here,” says Carbon 12 founder Kourosh Nouri. “a lot has happened since! alserkal is currently the host of some of the top galleries of Dubai and the region.” A sAmpling of the Art New yorker and former NYU film student James Clar, who lived in Dubai from 2007 to 2012, creates mesmerizing light sculptures while exploring themes of nationalism, globalism and popular culture in the age of mass information; the intellectually challenging photographs and drawings of Viennese artist birgit Graschopf meld theory with the energy of street art. the buzz Don’t miss Carbon 12’s “back corridor,” a tucked-away space reserved for special works. Carbon 12: Warehouse D37, Alserkal Avenue, 971-4-340-6016; carbon12dubai.com. CourTesy ayyaM GaLLery, CourTesy arTisT & GreeN arT GaLLery Dubai the drAw Green Art Gallery the drAw Contemporary work by diaspora Middle eastern artists. history This Dubai institution was founded in 1995 by Mayla atassi. after atassi’s death in 2007, her daughter relocated to a clean, 3,000-squarefoot “white cube” on alserkal avenue. the gAllerist art’s in yasmin atassi’s DNa. Though she has broadened the reach of her mother’s gallery from modernism to contemporary art, she remains committed to artists with intellectual and aesthetic integrity. A sAmpling of the Art Turk Hale Tenger’s unconventional background (in computer programming and ceramics) comes through in her video installations, sculpture and photographs; acclaimed New york-based Pakistani seher shah’s recent work features intricately detailed drawings of reimagined, deconstructed architectural forms. the buzz in 2012, Green art Gallery was one of two Dubai galleries invited to switzerland’s art Basel—the first ever from the Persian Gulf. Green Art Gallery: Warehouse 28, Alserkal Avenue, 971-4-346-9305; gagallery.com. the drAw Contemporary Middle eastern works, with an emphasis on syrian art. history Founded in 2006 in Damascus. the gAllerists Collectors and cousins Khaled and Hisham samawi nurture new talent. Their Damascus gallery has become a sanctuary and studio for artists who remain in the war-torn city. A sAmpling of the Art syria’s Nihad al Turk creates haunting mixed-media works featuring weathered floral arrangements, heavy shadows, corpses and deformed mythological creatures; Kuwaiti artist shurooq amin’s controversial works explore the hidden hypocrisy and hedonism of the arab man and the injustices against women. the buzz earlier this year, more than 700 people attended the opening exhibit at Ayyam’s first European gallery, on London’s tony New bond street. “The art and culture coming out of the Middle east is a good story. People are interested because the Middle east is a great place,” says co-owner Khaled samawi. He hopes the violence will lead to better things so the region’s people, including its artists, “get what they deserve: a good life.” Ayyam Gallery: Warehouse B-11, Alserkal Avenue; 971-4-323-6242; ayyamgallery.com. [ Grey Noise Contemporary Pakistani artists. in 2011, three years after launching Grey Noise in Lahore, Pakistan, founder umer butt moved to Dubai. the gAllerist an artist himself, butt launched Grey Noise to help put cutting-edge Pakistani artists on the map. Partnering with Dubai gallerist Hetal Pawani of The Jam Jar, he moved to the Gulf to be closer to the beating heart of the art world. A sAmpling of the Art The colorful doctored archival photographs of saudi-born Mehreen Murtaza meld traditional Sufi forms with sci-fi futurism; Pakistani artist ehsan ul Haq is known for clever in situ work, such as a 2011 installation called Rooster, which featured a live rooster tethered by twine to the center of a room whose floor was covered by a thin layer of chicken feed. by eating the feed within its reach, the rooster inscribed a clean circle out of the rectangular plane of feed, the result at once beautiful and chilling when considered a metaphor for resource scarcity. the buzz Look for exhibits by more european the drAw history J WM MAGAZINE 51 j w m a r r i o t t. c o m Pakistani art on display at Grey Noise, opposite. This page: Shurooq Amin’s “A Tale of Two Muslims,” at Ayyam Gallery, top left; the work of Turk Hale Tengar at Green Art. http://www.greynoise.org http://www.ayyamgallery.com http://www.gagallery.com http://www.carbon12dubai.com http://www.JWMARRIOTT.COM

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of JWM - Volume 3, Issue 3

JWM - Summer 2013
Table of Contents
JW Experts
Contributors
Editor’s Letter
Distinctive Products, People, Ideas & Style
A Quiet Place
Powering Down
Sonoma
Industrial Arts
The Portal
Downtown Dreaming
Sky High
Greens Revolution
Rethinking the Bored Room
JW Experience
My Passion

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