Artist Nada Eido delves into an imaginary desert
24th Oct 2005, 10:27 GMT
With its broad bands of color, repetitive squares, buried scraps of fabric, and bubbled pools of oil paints mixed with tissue, the work of Lebanese painter Nada Eido, on view at Galerie Rochane in Saifi Village through the end of October, commands attention through its textures more so than its content. The 22 canvases that comprise Eido's debut exhibition.
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