Artist Talk: Dahlia Elsayed

Welcome to the Artist Talk with Dahlia Elsayed! Join us on Thu Feb 6 2025 at 6:00 PM for an evening filled with creativity and inspiration. This event will take place at Shine Portrait Studio @Express Newark, where you'll have the chance to hear directly from the talented artist herself. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to gain insight into Dahlia Elsayed's artistic process and vision. See you there!

This Artist Talk is part of the Visting Artist series hosted by Rutgers University-Newark's Fine Art Program, Department of Arts, Culture and Media, (ACM) and SHINE Portrait Studio @ Express Newark. The Visiting Artist series connects students, staff, faculty, and the greater Newark community in the spirit of co-learning and co-creation, with insight into contemporary art practices, the creative process, and the evolving art landscape.

Dahlia Elsayed uses visual elements of landscape, cartography, and cosmology to make myth pictures for placelessness: visual documents that recount unreliable oral histories and anticipate alternate futures. Her paintings, prints, textiles and installations use a symbolic vocabulary rooted in Southwest Asian & North African decorative traditions - lush, colorful, fantastical, immersive - that make reference to the actual landscape experiences of displacement over multiple generations of her family.

Host or Publisher Express Newark