PRINTNabil El Jaouhari
Jaouhari uses mixed media paintings and prints to explore personal narratives
Daisuke Nakamura
Nabil El Jaouhari, a first-year graduate student from Lebanon, uses mixed media paintings and prints to explore personal narratives.
November 5, 2009 | 12:00 a.m. CST
Straddling the worlds of printmaking and painting, El Jaouhari says he is still trying to find his voice. It is a struggle between having something to say and knowing how to say it, he explains. El Jaouhari uses olive oil staining in mixed-media paintings and prints to explore a personal narrative. His use of olive oil has meaning beyond his family’s olive oil business in Lebanon; the process of staining also signifies certain themes, such as the “stain” of guilt and shame sometimes associated with homosexuality. El Jaouhari stresses that even the most abstract art pieces have meaning. “Nothing is made without a reason, especially in art,” he says
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