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Given the uncanny breadth of her art, Adnan is a modern-day inheritor of ... the co-director of London’s Serpentine Galleries. “Etel is one of the most influential artists of the 21st century.” ...
Etel Adnan. “Untitled” (2015), oil on canvas (photo Natalie Haddad/Hyperallergic) At the same time, an ambiguous sense of place is inscribed in her art. She grew up in a primarily Arabic ...
Etel Adnan (1925–2021), born in Beirut, Lebanon, was a poet, essayist, and painter known for her colorful abstract landscapes. Her art often reflected her diverse cultural heritage and ...
She was in her 80s when her art started to draw international attention. By Nana Asfour Etel Adnan, an influential Lebanese American writer who wrote a seminal novel about the Lebanese civil war ...
Although she can no longer travel due to her age, the effervescent nonagenarian poet, essayist, and artist Etel Adnan can still be ... opening on January 19 at the FLAG Art Foundation in New ...
Over a seven decade career, 96-year-old artist Etel Adnan has proved that to shape the next generation, art must often shift its shape. Through visual art, poetry, journalism, prose and plays, she has ...
Etel Adnan, acclaimed writer, trailblazing artist and pioneer in ... Three years later, she settled in California to teach philosophy of art and aesthetics at the Dominican University of California.
Etel Adnan was a contemporary American-Lebanese painter and writer ... as it is not a particular landscape—it is maybe a memory of a particular landscape. Art has a political function in the sense ...