Photography allows me to engage my immediate environment, while maintaining a bit of psychological distance from it through the camera’s lens. The latter is a wonderful bit of refuge from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. I enjoy taking photographs of everything from people, to architecture, to whole environments.

In paintings, I use symbols that concisely represent specific social interactions. These interactions are then juxtaposed with one-another into simple or complex nexuses. This is done in order to visually relate a social framework in which some conflict - practical, inane, moral, or otherwise - develops. While seemingly crude in the rendering of representational figures and perspective, I am more interested with how different elements in each work awkwardly relate to one another. To create works in which each element therein stands by itself, is to create works whose whole is less than the sum of its parts.

Past Exhibitions:
-June, 2008: Supermasochist, Apex Art, New York City, NY
-April, 2008: Slow Graffiti, Adaptation Art, Philadelphia, PA
-March, 2008: Labor [Ethereal] (Web Exhibition), www.laborexhibition.com
-November, 2007: Paying It Forward, James Yarosh Associates Gallery,
Holmdel, NJ
-October, 2007: In The Country of Last Refuge, Aferro Gallery, Newark, NJ
-October, 2007: High-Tech Low-Tech: Emerging Contemporary Art, Space II III
IV, Highland Park, NJ
-March, 2007: Links2, LAB Gallery, Piscataway, NJ
-February, 2007: Art in the Mediums of Cardboard and Photocopy: New
Brunswick's Past and Present, New Brunswick Train Station, New Brunswick, NJ

Education:
September, 2004 – May, 2008
Bachelor of Arts, Middle Eastern Studies, Rutgers University: New Brunswick
Bachelor of Arts, Sociology, Rutgers University: New Brunswick

Professional Experience:
-February, 2007: Curator, Art in the Mediums of Cardboard and Photocopy: New
Brunswick's Past and Present, New Brunswick, NJ

Bibliography:
-Qardoni, Nawal. "Art show (literally) is inside, outside the box." The Star Ledger,
Middlesex County Edition, 25 February, 2007: Middlesex County Section, Front Cover, Page 29.
-Wilcox, Emma (Editor). In The Country of Last Refuge (Exhibition Catalogue).
Aferro Publication No. 5. Page 15.

Collections:
-Newark Public Library: Special Collections (Artist’s Books)