Artist Statement Nature, for me is very personal and abstract. The strange dawns and sunsets, water, changing colors; the sky spreading alone without a support; the beginning of a new day, with light converting into dark and the night transferring into day light. The birth of man and his return into the dust in an unending sequence! Nothing could be move amazing than all this! What is this paradox? There is a deep pathos, hidden in all this. A pathos that is mine and yours too. There is a new hope, a new aspiration every moment, and that is the beauty of the Universe. This beauty holds my paintings together. Every picture is an expression of unwanted pain and unknown happiness. Now, these pictures are not mine anymore; they belong to the world. Mughees Riaz
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Ar%st Name: Mughees Riaz Size: 18 x 20” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 001 2
Ar%st Name: Mughees Riaz Size: 16 x 20” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 002
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Ar%st Name: Mughees Riaz Size: 18 x 18” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 003 4
Ar%st Name: Mughees Riaz Size: 16 x 20” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 004
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Ar%st Name: Mughees Riaz Size: 16 x 20” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 005
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Ar%st: Mughees Riaz Size: 22 x 16” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 006 7
Ar%st: Mughees Riaz Size: 18 x 18” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 007
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Artist Statement
 To express reactions to life through the medium of paints is to integrate art and life. The human form - my major source of inspiration - dominates my paintings. To emphasize the isolation of the model, I use space. The most important aspect of my work is the rhythmic arrangement of the figure. A further challenge for me as a painter has been to capture both male and female characteristics in one person. in my paintings, those unspoken words that are not to be uttered are very keenly felt. Ali Azmat
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 18 x 24” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 008
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 16 x 18” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 009
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 12 x 20” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 010
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 20 x 22” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 011
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 20 x 20” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 012 14
Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 20 x 30” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 013
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 20 x 30” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 014
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Ar%st Name: Ali Azmat Size: 20 x 30” Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Code: 015
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Artist Statement My studio is my entire universe where my tumultuous thoughts my restless temperament, the ghosts of Giants and Icons of arts and literature they come together to haunt me and set me on a reverie and it's as if I'm possessed and then its me, my brush, colors and canvas and the frenzy brewing inside me is erupted like a volcano on the canvas and thus a painting comes to life. Over the years I have developed my own idiomatic vernacular in the form of figurines of Ajanta and Allora,human faces in agony and Malang's in eternal trance through which I try to express my stories. I'm in unison with the images I create, they are me, my different aspects, the reflections of my inner turmoil and tempest. I am also one of the minions who try hard to derive meaning out of meaningless existence and paradoxes of life and try to solve the conundrum and chaos around us. Art for me is a therapeutic catharsis which has given sanity to my madness, it’s a holy matrimony, a sacrament, a lifestyle, a commitment for life, its not my passion it’s my life. Farrukh Shahab
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Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 30 x 30” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 016 19
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 5 x 28” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 017 20
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 5 x 28” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 018 21
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 4 x 28” Medium : Oil on Board Code: 019 22
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 4 x 28” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 020 23
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 66 x 21” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 021
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Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 10 x 10” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 022 25
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 10 x 10” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 023 26
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 25 x 25” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 024 27
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 25 x 25” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 025 28
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 34 x 44” Medium: Oil on Canvas Code: 026 29
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 8.5 x 58” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 027 30
Ar%st Name: Farukh Shahab Size: 8.5 x 58” Medium: Oil on Board Code: 028 31
Artist Statement
The recent body of work is a continuation of my past twenty two appearances at various art galleries in Pakistan and abroad. At each appearance I adopted a new vocabulary to paint the essence of truth with lines and layers. As transparency is the Quintessence of naked reality, it remains constant on my surfaces. With a blend of feelings I express reality around through Realism combined with modernism. In the remote recesses of my subconscious lies an effort to create a spiritual climate that touches the heart. I feel a new liberty when the beauty of every form is clear, visible and not overlapping each other creates a multidimensional view. I don't need to distort the naturalistic forms as done in cubism or other “isms” of art. I have externalized my outrage at the hypocrisy religious, social, economics that cloaks and disguises our true intentions. In my works, a world emphasizing the simplicity and joy of Spiritual content versus the present contemporary situation with all its perils, I have peeled off layer by layer, The fables that determine our lives. I have created new possibilities in realism that has never been done before. MASOOD A. KHAN
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Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 27.5 x 20” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 029 33
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 27.5 x 20” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 030 34
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 27.5 x 20” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 031 35
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 27.5 x 20” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 032 36
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 22.5 x 29.5”” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 033 37
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 21 x 28.5”” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 034 38
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 30 x 22.5” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 035 39
Ar%st Name: Masud A Khan Size: 30 x 22.5” Medium: Wan Ink & Acrylic on Bleach Card Code: 036
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