 Acrylic on canvas | 36" x 48" | 2016   LitDesign Contributor-in-residence (Summer 2017): Muhammad Zaman situates himself at the forefront of modern Arabic calligraphy and practices a form of the craft akin to eL-Seed's "calligraffi." Zaman calls his method “freestyle calligraphy,” which is particularly recognizable due to its multilingual base—hybrid crossings between different languages. On his website, zamanarts.com, he recounts growing up in Dhaka, Bangladesh, studying classical Arabic texts and then moving to Western New York at 12 years old. All the while, he shares that he was dreaming of what it would mean to “have my own style.”
To read more on Zaman's works & his prior showing at 1045 Gallery, click here. |
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