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Maha Abu Ghoush
b.22 July, 1970
JORDAN
maha_aga@yahoo.com
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STATEMENT
In my work I always emphasize on the color as a significant and unifying element. It follows two main directions: In the first, I move into unfettered areas of fervent intensity, characterized by its expressionistic vigor through the application of thick coats of paints of various material (gouache, fingerpaint, acrylic, and oil colors) on highly textured surfaces, which I then rework partially or completely with oil pastel, producing a remarkable effect and displaying the variations of color, form, line, and movement.

In the second, which involves drawings using watercolors, pastel and pen, I create a mystical, fanciful and gothic world of trees and foliage. A world that's at once eerie and alluring. A world that exists only in one's imagination.
EDUCATION
1989 - 1992
Certificate in Fine Arts Painting
Training Center of Fine Arts
Amman, Jordan
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- Exhibition of oil paintings at the Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1996

- Three Person Exhibition, at the Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1992
RECOGNITIONS
1989
First Prize, Young Artists Competition II, Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1989
First Prize, Biennial Muscat, Young Arab Artists Competition, Muscat, Oman, in 1988
Certificate of Merit, Young Artists Competition I, Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1988
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- An exhibition of graphic works in Damascus, Syria, in 2001
- Generations. An exhibition of graphic works at the City Hall, Amman, Jordan, in 1998
- Jordanian cultural week, at the Royal Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan, in 1996
- Collective exhibition of Jordanian modern art, at the Yamouk University, Amman, Jordan, in 1996
- Collective exhibition of Jordanian modern art, at the Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1996
- An exhibition of Jordanian visual arts, at the Jordanian Visual Artists Association, Amman, Jordan, in 1995
- First collective exhibition of graphic works from Darat Al Funun printmaking studio, Amman, Jordan, in 1995
- Three Person Exhibition, at the Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1992
- Young Artists Competition II, at the Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1989
- Biennial Muscat, Young Arab Artists Competition, Muscat, Oman, in 1988
- Young Artists Competition I, at the Cervantes Institute, Amman, Jordan, in 1988
- Collective exhibitions by the students of the Training Center of Fine Arts, at the Royal Cultural Center, Amman, Jordan, between 1987 and 1991
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