From October 15th until November 7th the Chelsea branch of reknown Dutch gallery Witzenhausen will hold a solo exhibition of Karim Hamid’s latest work.

The gallery is located on  the 5th floor, suite 530 at 547 west 27th street, between 10th and 11th avenue.
Opening hours are Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 6pm

Join us for the Opening: 15 Oct 2009 – 6-8 PM

Karim Hamid’s paintings function as a psychic response to an unconvincing onslaught of media superficiality and the pervasive objectification of the female form in art history. The goal of his paintings seems to be to distort and exaggerate this emphasis on an idealized form.

In his paintings he is focused mostly on the psychic condition of the person observed, something not readily available to the conditioned eye. In his portraits, or anonymous found imagery, he expects the same thing – to find something broader in the meaning and composure.

“While the imagery is often distorted or exaggerated in my work, I also expect my work to express itself within its own polemical and painterly distortion of that distortion. It is about the thing/person being observed, as well as the method of being observed.”