Presented by the Islamic Art Revival Series in partnership with Irving Arts Center, the 5th Annual Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Islamic Art is a program of the Texas Muslim Women’s Foundation. This prestigious international exhibition of artwork is inspired by Islamic culture, art, literature and architecture and features works in a variety of styles and media from artists around the world. Coming from diverse backgrounds, with varying faiths, ages and levels of expertise, the exhibition aims to present Islamic art as a universal language, a translator and connector of generations and cultures. 2016 Juror: Dr. Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

1. 5th Annual Juried International
Exhibition of Contemporary
Islamic Art

2. Madiha Siraj (1)
Centerville, OH
Deeply Red
Acrylic, glitter, microbeads and glass beads on board, 15” x20”

3. Jenna Lynch (2)
Kent, CT
A Local Mosque, Damascus, 2015
Color photography, 20” x 20”

4. Carolyn Brown (3)
Dallas, TX
Panoramic View at the Sultan Ahmet Mosque, Istanbul, 2015
Photography, 16” x 35”

5. Lahib Jaddo (4)
Bagdad, Iraq/Lubbock, TX
Archetype 4, 2015
Mixed media, 18” x 13”

6. Juliana Coles (5)
Albuquerque, NM
The Vision, 2016
Mixed media on panel, 20” x 18”

7. Juliana Coles (6)
Albuquerque, NM
Radiance, 2016
Mixed media on wood panel, 10” x 8”

8. Adelaide Tyrol (7)
Plainfield, VT
Here and There, 2013
Oil paint on board with film overlay, 10” x 8”

9. Azi Amiri (8)
Tehran, Iran/Brooklyn, NY
Snapshot #13, 2016
Monoprint, transferred image, metallic leaf
44” x 30”

10. Azi Amiri (9)
Tehran, Iran/Brooklyn, NY
Snapshot #2, 2014
Monoprint, transferred image, metallic leaf
44” x 30”

11. Nina Ghanbazadeh (10 & 11)
Tehran, Iran/New Berlin, WI
Night, 2014
Diptych, acrylic and carpet tacks on gator foam board, each 48” x 48”

12. Bob Bruch (12)
Oberlin, OH
Bowl, 2015
Ceramic, 9” x 12” x 8”

13. Mina Talaee (13)
Tehran, Iran
The Lost Object, 2015
Bronze, 9” x 7” x 7”

14. Roger Bohuslav (14)
Buda, TX
At a Party, 2015
mixed media, 24” x 42”

15. Roger Bohuslav (15)
Buda, TX
Dineh, 2015
Mixed media, 24” x 42”

16. Leena Sonboul (16)
Saudi Arabia/Rochester, NY
Arm Has No Colour, 2015
Photography and painting, 16” x 10.5”

17. Kelly Izdihar Crosby (17)
Palmetto, GA
Violet Mosquescape, 2016
Fabric paint and acrylic paint on canvas, 18” x 24”

18. Karen Karlsson (18)
Pomona, CA
The Sands of Time, 2016
Encaustic and oil on panel, 24” x 18”

19. Setsuko Yoshida (19)
Kyoto, Japan/Salt Lake City, UT
Persian Bottle and Cup, 2016
Watercolor, 26” x 20”

20. Della Reams (20 & 21)
Oxford, OH
Sejada Carpet Runner (w/detail) and Windmill
Sejada, 2014
Machine knitted wool, 92” x 17” and 43” x 43”

21. Anna Chupa (22)
Allentown, PA
Arizona Wildflowers, 2016
Acid dye on silk, 130” x 50”

22. Roya Moansourkhani (23)
Isfahan, Iran/Dallas, TX
My Path, 2015
Mixed media on paper, 52” x 38”

23. Shady Eshghi (24)
Iran/Plantation, FL
Pardeh Yek (Veiled One), 2016
Pen and pencil on dung paper, 36” x 24”

24. Angelita Propes (25)
Rug (While Waiting), 2016
Refugee/asylee relatives’ petitions, pen inked,
kilim design,58” x 34”

25. Louise Markus (26)
Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada
Hammam, 2016
Acrylic on canvas, 20” x 16”

26. Louise Markus (26)
Pouch Cove, Newfoundland, Canada
Guns & Roses, 2016
Acrylic on canvas, 20” x 16”

27. Suzanne Benton (28)
Ridgefield, CT
Archer, 2013
Monoprint with Chine collé, 24” x 18”

28. Nina Irwin
Kansas City, MO
The Search, 2015
Watercolor, ink, oil, 23K gold on panel
7” x 5”

29. Elizabeth Yarosz-Ash (30)
Wichita Falls, TX
Mashrabiyya
Inkjet, graphite, gold leaf, pinholes on paper
(pages from 1897 book), 10” x 7”

30. Richard Van Pelt (31)
Boulder, CO
Dark Flame, 2016
Scan composite, 22” x 22”

31. Suedabeh Ewing (32)
Iran/Garland, TX
If the Veil Disappears!, 2015
Watercolor, 22” x 30”

32. Wisam Koharyan (33)
Baghdad, Iraq/Glendale, CA
Sumerian Civilization, 2006
Acrylic on canvas, 43” x 43”

33. Jennifer Padilla (34)
Altadena, CA
Ben Yusef Madrasa Geometric Construction, 2016
Acrylic on canvas (diptych), 24” x 24” each

34. Bahman Panahi (35)
Tehran, Iran/Paris, France
Garden of Huwa, 2015
Ink and gold on handmade paper, 28” x 20”

35. Daud Akhriev (36)
Kazakhstan/Andalusian Spain/Chattanooga, TN
Moroccan Fountain II, 2016
Oil on panel, 15.75” x 8.75”

36. David Hamlow (37)
Good Thunder, MN
Reliquaries 8 and 9: Another’s Treasure
Conserved paperboard,
plastic packaging and ephemera
90” x 150” x 3”

37. David Beker (38)
Philadelphia, PA
Wall Cabinet, 2014
Black walnut, maple
22” x 13” x 2.5”

38. Kyoyoung Keum (39)
Sejong, Republic of Korea
Mary, 2014
Mixed media on canvas, 38” x 54

39. Kyoyoung Keum (40)
Sejong, Republic of Korea
Confession, 2015
Mixed media on canvas, 15” x 26”

40. Ladan Ebrahimian (41)
Tehran, Iran/Gaithersburg, MD
Kaleido Cell #1, 2016
Oil on glass, 25” x 37

41. Marium Rana (42)
Lynn Haven, FL
We Had a Palace, We Had It All, 2015
Gouache, watercolor, acrylic paint and ink
on watercolor paper, 22” 30”

42. Marium Rana (43)
Lynn Haven, FL
Palm Trees and Havelis, 2015
Gouache, watercolor, acrylic paint and ink on watercolor paper, 22” x 30”

43. Carolina de la Cajiga (44)
Mexico City, Mexico/Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Aliya (7377), 2016
Manipulated photography, printed on aluminum, 20” x 30”

44. Linda-Marlena Bucholtz Ross (45)
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Mosque Storefront, 2016
Photography, 15” x 18.5”

45. Abbas Yousif (46)
Jeblat Hibshi,Bahrain
Alone in the Whiteness (from A Tribute to Mahmoud Darwish’s Poem: Mural 1), 2015
Mixed media on canvas, 23” x 23”

46. Farnosh Olamai Birch (47)
Tehran, Iran/Norwalk, CT
Hiatus, 2014
Mixed media on canvas, 36” x 36”

47. Farnosh Olamai Birch (48)
Tehran, Iran/Norwalk, CT
Trust, 2014
Mixed media on canvas, 40” x 60”

48. Ahmed Ansari (49)
Mumbai, India/Chantilly, VA
Merciful, 2015
Acrylic, mixed media on canvas
48” x 48”

49. Christina Skaggs (50)
Hilo, HI
Garden of Pomegranates, 2015
Acrylic and oil on archival board, 28” x 40

50. Shafaq Ahmad (51)
Rawalpindi, Pakistan/Irving, TX
ILM ISHK (Knowledge Love) Installation, 2016
Six digital prints, three paintings (oil on canvas) and 4 sculptures (hand painted on acrylic)
with audio component

51. Francesca Montinaro (52)
Rome, Italy
Veil of Freedom, 2015
Video installation

52. Reni Gower (53)
Mechanicsville, VA
Papercuts: White/Ultra, 2016
acrylic on hand cut paper, 80.5” x 48.5”

53. Patrick Wilson (54)
Kalamazoo, MI
Kashgar Column, 2014
Reclaimed Douglas fir, laminated inkjet prints
33” x 32” x 17”

54. Shamina Senaratne (55)
Port Moody, British Columbia, Canada
Interpreting the Shadows and the Light, 2015
Silk, cotton, mixed media, 5 panels; each 54” x 32.5”

55. Jon Revett (56)
Amarillo, TX
Be Old and Told, 2016
Mixed media on found wood, 20” x 13” x 40”

56. Jon Revett (57)
Amarillo, TX
The Glacier Project, 2016
Screenprinted records, dimensions variable (@ IAC 10’ x 9’)

57. Jeremy Landau (58)
Ranchos de Taos, NM
Toureg Dancers
(from the Morocco Portrait Series), 2015
Photograph printed on canvas, 12” x 10”

58. Jeremy Landau (59)
Ranchos de Taos, NM
Granary Arches (from the Morocco Historic Architectural Series), 2015
Photograph, 16” x 12”

59. Jeremy Landau (60)
Rancho de Taos, NM
Fez Tannery (from the Morocco Historic Architectural Series), 2015
Photograph, sepia toned, 12” x 14”

60. Gabriel Sanchez-Viveros (61)
Mexico City, Mexico
Mezquita y Niñas en Rojo (Mosque and Girls in Red), 2016
Digital photography printed on cotton paper, 27” x 35”

61. Yasaman Moussavi (62)
Tehran, Iran/Lubbock, TX
Passage Series, 2016
Dry point on wood, ink, 15” x 10”

62. Rene Culler (63)
Mobile, AL
Hexagonal Inspired Order - Alhambra, 2016
Fused glass, vitreous enamel, silver stained, 21” x 20”

63. Amjad Faur (64)
Olympia, WA
Winds Will Carry Their Arrows, 2016
Photograph, carbon pigment print
40” x 32”

64. Carolyn Brown (65)
Dallas, TX
Iznick Tiles from Rustem Pasha Mosque, Istanbul, 2015
Photograph, 24” x 32”

65. Sarah Ahmad (66)
Lahore, Pakistan/Memphis, TN
Groundless, 2015
Mixed media, acrylic carvings, MDF fiberboard, paint, 10’ x 20’ x 14’