March 02, 2007	Friday	Safar 12, 1428

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ISLAMABAD, March 1: The exhibition of over 30 paintings by some of the best known painters and a new entrant opened at the Nomad Art Gallery here on Thursday.

In the exhibition are some of the modern abstract and figurative paintings in oil and water colours on canvas using beautiful composition to create artworks for the eye’s delight.

Among the contemporary artists exhibiting their new works is Qudsia Nisar, one of the senior most abstract painters in Pakistan. In a bold interplay of vibrant colours and various textures, her works are easily recognisable.

Mashkoor Raza’s powerful drawings represent abstract women and horses theme and stylised calligraphy. The artist’s horses and nudes’ abstract paintings exemplify creativity and the mastery of technique. And again the use of lively exciting colours mesmerises and arouses imagination.

Moazzam Ali, the senior Karachi-based artist’s focuses is on Thar women. The female figures in images, characterised by an explosion of colours as the vibrant hues of nature, spill out of the boundary of their forms and weave complex webs of colours, splattered, splashed and washed through the dense background jungle. In his symbolic paintings, Moazzam goes to the soul of her figures ie the Thari women and matka.

Trying to raise social issues, Naheed Raza in her compositions expresses serious concerns about violence against women in rural settings and patriarchal traditions.

But there is an exciting image change in the way Naheed expresses herself in her fabulous new compositions. Heavy in symbolism, the concerns are powerful and appropriate in passionate energetic orange and red and also in the vibrancy of her casual and openhearted use of intoxicating purples and blues.

Symbolically questioning freedom of life and expression, Abrar Ahmad’s works in black and white raise concern on social themes and are executed in strong and very well defined lines.

Maylene Rasmussen is exhibiting her works for the first time at the gallery. She brings two of her works in oil and canvas and seven other paintings in exquisite lacquer, a skill she developed when she was living in Vietnam. One of her beautiful lacquer paintings gives off mother-of-pearl effect and the others of beautiful rainbow colours. She presents women in many forms and her works are influenced by local and western traditions.

The exhibition by the six artists will continue till March 10.