Jehan Ali

Biography

Jehan Ali’s Biography International award-winning (Collector's) mixed media artist, that resides in Dubai. Jehan has a BFA in Interior Design from American University in Dubai, class 2001. For her, Art is life; it is the most beautiful universal language that silently speaks aloud. A Little Bit Creative; At her home, art stirs: Food and food for thought. There, Jehan cooks, bakes, draws, paints, reads, writes, embroiders, takes photos, prints, and creates collages. As a war survivor, she believes art heals, poured her soul on canvas and paper, blending images with words, published her first ekphrastic art book; DELVE An Artful Book by Jehan Ali, 2019. Questioning life’s important situations with “Why?!” Her art is dramatic, enthusiastic, steps between the abstract and surreal, bold and delicate, opaque and transparent, with a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours. Exhibited Internationally in New York with beautiful galleries as; Broadway, Amsterdam Whitney Fine Art Inc. At Tokyo’s Contemporary Art Station. In Korea with 7th Geoje International Art Festival. Also, home locally in: Dubai, at Tashkeel, at House of Talents, The Walk. With Noon Art Gallery & solo for World Art Dubai, Ahemedia’s Gallery, Fully Booked Dubai Art Book Fair, Alserkal Avenue and Kave, and Dubai Design District. At Ras Al Khaimah Fine Arts Festival and Museum. & Abu Dhabi’s Rich List. Member at Tashkeel participated in many creative workshops there. Also, at Sxill, Kalimat Publishing, Blank Canvas, Kave. and FabLab In5 at Dubai Design District. Winner of Power of Creativity I Art Prize. Contemporary Art Curator Magazine 2021.

Artist Statement

I am here and there, at the undulating indents, contriving a thought, sinking in it deeply, to resurface on a paper before it extinguishes in the charcoaled heap. Or blend it brightly on a more rigid or softer surface.
I like to seize fleeting moments and depict them. It begins blurry then focused. Sometimes it starts with a word, sometimes with an image and manifolds from within to outwards, or vice versa. Different angles give different perspectives.
It captivates me to look through the multifarious reflections of a kaleidoscope. Where time, light, vibrant colours, various patterns and events, change constantly, with every rotation and twist. As nothing is stable in this life, but the truth, it impels me:
The purpose of life is to seek the truth… the more you head away from it, the more it gets distorted…
Distorted patterns are intolerable, neither harmonious, nor peaceful, and not even funny like carnival mirrors.
From the havoc, I gather shreds, strips, and pieces, press them gently, and stitch them. They coagulate at their borders, layers coalesce, unite and heal the whole.
The chaos is calmed but stillness is temporary. Repeat: Movement either deliberate or rapid, is needed, for a new beginning.

Country United Arab Emirates

Website www.f-nan.com