Open Studio with Kevork Mourad
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Take a tour of acclaimed Syrian-Armenian visual artist Kevork Mourad’s Brooklyn studio and discover his current projects, with a window into his process, signature techniques he employs in drawing, printmaking and animation, and his intricate, multi-layered works.
Mourad employs his technique of live drawing and animation in concert with musicians – developing a collaboration in which art and music harmonize with one another. Collaborators include Yo-Yo Ma, Kim Kashkashian, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Brooklyn Rider, The Knights, Perspectives Ensemble, Paola Prestini, and Kinan Azmeh and he has performed in many institutions, including The Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), The Art Institute of Chicago, The American Museum of Natural History, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, Carnegie Hall, ElbPhilharmonie (Germany), Rhode Island School of Design, Nara Museum (Japan), Lincoln Center Atrium, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Born in Qamishli, Syria, Mourad now lives and works in New York City. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the Yerevan Institute of Fine Arts in Armenia. Mourad has been a resident teaching artist at Brandeis University, Harvard University, and Holy Cross (Worcester). He is the only visual artist member in Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Ensemble and is featured in the film “Music of Strangers” (2016).
Recent commissions include "Israel in Egypt," for the Los Angeles Master Chorale, "Sound of Stone" to accompany the exhibition “Armenia!” for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and "Well Wish Ya," a dance performance piece with the OYO Dance Troupe in Namibia. His performance, "Home Within," co-produced with clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, has toured the world. The 2016 recipient of the Robert Bosch Stiftung Film Prize, his animated film "4 Acts for Syria" made its 2019 premiere at the Stuttgart Animation Festival. He was recently asked by the Aga Khan Foundation to create a site-specific 20-foot drawing-sculpture called "Seeing Through Babel," at London’s Ismaili Center, addressing the importance of diversity in our contemporary times.
Hosted by Cristi Rinklin, Professor and Chair, Visual Arts.
Publication Date
9-10-2020
Duration
57:42 minutes
Keywords
printmaking, studio visit, animation, Syrian artist, ATB HomeStage
Disciplines
Near and Middle Eastern Studies | Other Film and Media Studies | Printmaking
Recommended Citation
Mourad, Kevork and Rinklin, Cristi, "Open Studio with Kevork Mourad" (2020). ATB Events. 3.
https://crossworks.holycross.edu/atb_events/3
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Co-sponsored by Arts Transcending Borders and the Cantor Art Gallery.
Part of the Fall 2020 series ATB HomeStage.