BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:NingEventWidget-v1 VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:3158456:Event:75654 DTSTAMP:20120527T024659Z SUMMARY:Fractals and Walls: Paintings by Kassem Amoudi DESCRIPTION:Cerulean Arts is pleased to present Fractals and Walls, fe aturing new paintings by Kassem Amoudi.  Amoudi’s art is a distilla tion of his life’s journey both as an artist and as a seeker of trut h and beauty. His work straddles a thin line between form and formless ness, positive and negative space, the dynamic and the static, action and stillness.  For Amoudi, true beauty lies beyond form and nature.   It may be hidden in a slight hint of color at the edge of the canvas or it may become the main attraction. Amoudi listens and responds to his paintings as if they were living beings, allowing them to assume t he form for which they were meant.\nA fractal is defined as \"a fragme nted geometric shape that can be split into parts, each of which is a reduced-size copy of the whole.\"   Amoudi finds this phenomenon mir aculous in that the entire universe can be reflected in the tiniest pa rticle, and is akin to poetic metaphors.  Amoudi’s FRACTAL painting s emphasize repeated pattern, subtraction and order from chaos while r eflecting his ongoing painting interests:  active/quiet contrast, mul tiple focal points, dominant color and space.  WALLS are inspired by the old ruins of cities in which Amoudi grew up, and by the city of Ca mden, New Jersey where he currently lives and works.\nKassem Amoudi is a graduate of Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt; he received his MFA at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  An award-winning paint er with an extensive exhibition record, Amoudi is an adjunct faculty m ember at PAFA and faculty-in-residence in the MFA program at Vermont C ollege/Union Institute and University.\nFractals and Walls is on view January 25 – February 25, 2012 and is free and open to the public. T he opening reception is Friday, January 27 from 5 - 8 pm.  The artist will be available to answer questions about his work on Sunday, Febru ary 12, 1 - 4 pm with a gallery talk at 2 pm.\nhttp://www.ceruleanarts .com/exhibitions.htm\n\nFor more information visit http://phillyvenues .org/events/fractals-and-walls-paintings-by-kassem-amoudi DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120125T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120225T235900 CATEGORIES:art, exhibition LOCATION:Cerulean Arts WEBSITE:http://www.ceruleanarts.com/exhibitions.htm URL:http://www.ceruleanarts.com/exhibitions.htm CONTACT:267-514-8647 ORGANIZER;CN="Tina Rocha":http://phillyvenues.org/profile/TinaRocha ATTACH;FMTTYPE="image/jpeg":http://api.ning.com:80/files/vFx5srRnetPEz 7itE7HvX7l1FjJfFikin58bs7AmbFrFEbju2wgMuAO8CVROZ3cAEixLbNTw15ddTZtnoSM *8qSixPmgKkeB/fractals_and_walls_front.jpg ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=ACCEPTED;RSVP=TRUE;CN="Tina Roc ha":http://phillyvenues.org/profile/TinaRocha END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR