SEE THE LIGHT, a series of paintings, painted from 2017- 2019, with more than 50 acrylic, water color, and ink paintings on different sizes of canvas and different kinds of paper. I started by experimenting with mediums and surfaces, for example like using Japanese ink, rice paper, Japanese techniques of painting, while trying out some ideas generated from landscape as a point of reference. “See the Light”, visually, concerned with color and abstracted shapes and forms with the use of minimal details, and high contrast. In this body of work, I'm expressing my deep belief that no matter how dark a situation is, there must be light somewhere at some point in time, you just have to (see) to find it! So I suggest, when looking at the paintings, to observe the "light" to fully enjoy the paintings, not to marvel only at the black areas, even though the contrast is a key element in building these paintings!
01Light, Iman Shaggag, 2018
Acrylic on two 2canvas 90 x120 cm02Joy, Iman Shaggag, 2018, acrylic on 3 canvas 60 x90 cm03See, Iman Shaggag, 2018, acrylic on canvas 60 x90 cm04Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2018, acrylic on canvas 60 x90 cm05Open, Iman Shaggag, 2018
acrylic on canvas, 50 x50 cm06See II, Iman Shaggag, 2018, acrylic on linen, 20 x 40 cm07Wall of light, a group of paintings using watercolors and ink08Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2010, fabric paint on canvas09Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2010, fabric paint on canvas10Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2010, fabric paint on canvas11Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2010, fabric paint on canvas12Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2007, acrylics on canvas 12" x12"13Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2007, acrylics on canvas 12" x12"14Untitled, Iman Shaggag, 2007, acrylics on canvas 12" x12"15"V", Iman Shaggag, 2007
Acrylics on canvas 45" x 52"
114.3 x 132.08 centimeter, Collection of the artist16"Meditation", Iman Shaggag 2004, Acrylic & ink on canvas, 36" x 48";
Collection of the Art in Embassies program, U.S. Department of State
