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Iraqi-born American painter Ahmed Alsoudani builds tumultuous compositions about violence, war, and human suffering, juxtaposing human and bestial figures whose violent disembodiment seems to unfold right on the canvas. Within these surreal landscapes, art-historical references abound, including allusions to Picasso's Guernica, Bacon's overhead lights, and Bosch's Fall of the Rebel Angels. Painterly elements in disconcertingly vivid colors are placed alongside sections of charcoal drawings on un-primed canvas, letting the mood sway unsteadily somewhere between beautiful and haunting.

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History in the Making: Titus Kaphar Cuts up to Rebuild

Michelle Carlson
Art in America
May 20, 2009

History has a certain way of being selfish-the past is often understood through its inequities and linear narratives, static lines marching forward that are capped by dates, deaths, and wars -- by way of the winners and occasionally, the losers. Personal and collective trauma can be difficult, if not impossible to articulate, as many are left out (sometimes, on purpose). When those who have lived through history are gone and the voices of their retelling have long faded past fables and cautionary tales, how will those lessons be recounted? Will they fall into the vast fissures of histories lost? In "History in the Making," on view at the Seattle Art Museum, artist Titus Kaphar's sculptural paintings challenge canonical representations of history and memory by collapsing past into present.

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Kevin Francis Gray in Venice

Kevin Francis Gray opens show in Venice

Kevin Francis Gray has been working on a new piece, entitled "Black Metal Martyr," that will be included in his upcoming show presented by Changing Role Move Over Gallery of Napoli and Rome. The show will take place in Venice's Palazzo San Pasquale Campo di San Francesco della Vigna, which Kevin thinks is a perfect venue for his work with its references to classical sculpture.