Laimah Osman

Tag: drawing

  • Gaze Series

    Gaze Series

    I am happy to have my print included in the next group show at International Print Center New York (IPCNY). Unfinished: New Prints 2022/Winter opens January 20  Juried by Queer. Archive.Work.

  • جنگ • jang

    جنگ • jang

    Artist’s book, 15 x 8 inches (closed), 15 x 23 inches (open), June 2020 Flag book structure, bookcloth for cover is made with repurposed embroidered Afghan shirt, pages are made with solar plate etchings of photographs appropriated from The New York Times reporting on the War on Terror

  • untitled

    Untitled, 2009Etching, Sugarlift and Spitbite AquatintPlate size, 18 x 12 inches drawings inspired by dried cotton stems

  • Gates series

    Gates series

    “Gates” is a series of three monoprints drawing on Muradi’s poem of the same name, which explores themes of immigration and identity. The prints are rendered in a style reminiscent of classical illuminated manuscripts in Persian. The lines play with the Farsi/Dari diacritical marks “zabar,” [above] “zeyr,” [below] and “peysh,” [before] which denote short vowel sounds […]

  • Salaam Alaikum series

    Salaam Alaikum series

    “Salaam Alaikum” is a series of monoprints drawing lines from Muradi’s eponymous poem, which is concerned with how daily greetings take on new tenor in times of war. Here, greetings in Dari are layered with transliterations in English. Lines from the poem are in conversation with the meaning of the greetings. For example, “manda nabasheyn” […]

  • Ache

    Ache

  • Ishqnama

    Ishqnama

    Ishqnama / The Book of Love. 6 x 8.5″ closed; 4-panel double-sided accordion. 2013Collaboration with Abdullah Osman, Wazhmah Osman, Marina Ancona (10 Grand Press), Lila Yomtoob, and Nooshin Rostami. The artist book is archived in these libraries.

  • Apartment Still Life

    Pencil, tea, watercolor on paper. 2012

  • Mural

    “They will be greeted by flowers…”, watercolor on Arches Watercolor Paper, 4 foot x 5 foot and 5 inches

  • Newspaper Montages

    Newspaper Montages

    Inkjet prints with gouache, tea, spice and sparkle on Rives BFK Paper. 30″ x 22″. 2010