Villages and Passages

Acrylic on stretched canvas, 36"x48", 2019

Merging a painting technique partly grounded in my own use of the alphabetical multilingual letter as a plastic art medium with ancient and current myths, storytelling and Art History, I have for the last 30 years used my acrylic paintings, small and large multimedia installations to engage viewers and myself in dialogues about shared humanity and renewed aesthetic meanings. I always aspire for my paintings and installations to be organic visual poems that nurture viewers’ passion and participation in interpreting them.

Rajaa Gharbi is an international multi-disciplinary artist, poet and sociolinguist. She was a main puppeteer for seven years with The National Puppet Theatre of Tunisia, where she was born and raised. In the US she established herself as a painter and poet. Her visual art and poetry have been published and anthologized in the US and overseas, with solo and group exhibitions and poetry readings in the US since 1984- She has a BA and an MA in Applied Communication/fine art and filmmaking from The Evergreen State College and Antioch University.