Yousef Bahzad
About:
Yousef Bahzad is a Qatari/American visual artist, born 1989 in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from VCUQ with a BFA and minor in Art History. He briefly worked for the department of psychiatry assisting in art activities with patients. He now participates in both local and international exhibitions, and instructs painting workshops. His art practice consists mainly of painting and experimental photography. All his art forms supplement and feed into one another, with regards to tone, colour and imagery. He maintains and builds upon a visual mythos which consists of past drawings, paintings, and photographs to harness in the creation of new artwork. Through this visual mythos, he explores personal and universal human themes.
Artist Statement:
Within my painting practice, I explore themes of erosion and creation (entropy and order), and the notion that the land itself shapes us, and in turn, we shape the land. I analogize these themes into an individual's personal landscape existing within a social structure. Much like the roots of a tree navigating a bricked sidewalk or structure, what parts of us do we let erode away or grow within the internal landscape?
Yousef Bahzad is a Qatari/American visual artist, born 1989 in Detroit, Michigan. He graduated from VCUQ with a BFA and minor in Art History. He briefly worked for the department of psychiatry assisting in art activities with patients. He now participates in both local and international exhibitions, and instructs painting workshops. His art practice consists mainly of painting and experimental photography. All his art forms supplement and feed into one another, with regards to tone, colour and imagery. He maintains and builds upon a visual mythos which consists of past drawings, paintings, and photographs to harness in the creation of new artwork. Through this visual mythos, he explores personal and universal human themes.
Artist Statement:
Within my painting practice, I explore themes of erosion and creation (entropy and order), and the notion that the land itself shapes us, and in turn, we shape the land. I analogize these themes into an individual's personal landscape existing within a social structure. Much like the roots of a tree navigating a bricked sidewalk or structure, what parts of us do we let erode away or grow within the internal landscape?