{"id":53391,"date":"2022-09-29T19:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T23:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=53391"},"modified":"2022-09-28T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T21:02:25","slug":"cover-artist-nabil-el-jaouhari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-nabil-el-jaouhari\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Nabil El Jaouhari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_53309\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53309\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53309\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Hidden-Place.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"892\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hidden Place. Nabil El Jaouhari, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Nabil El Jaouhari grew up, the youngest of eight children, in Lebanon with the sounds of civil war all around him and the uncertainty of having to move multiple times and, sometimes, sleep in bunkers. The experience overshadowed his childhood, he says.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father was the first artist I got to know and be inspired by,\u201d Nabil says. He was a rattan and wicker furniture maker and encouraged his son to be creative. \u201cI got to experience post-war Beirut in the early \u201890s, where life was rushing in with amazing music and cinema and culture and art.\u201d He attended Lebanese University and, in 2009, applied to MFA programs in the US, deciding on the University of Missouri. During his years there, his studies focused on work related to personal history, sexuality, revealment and concealment. His thesis centered on the story of Narcissus and Echo. \u201cBecause they both failed to fulfill their biological destiny and social expectations, they were punished into emasculation, and Echo became a pattern of the voice of someone else,\u201d he says. He was intrigued by trying to create visual representation of complex subject matter. \u201cI was leaning on the history of floral paintings and mythology and all the allegories that they contained,\u201d Nabil says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53311\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53311\" class=\"wp-image-53311\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-1022x1024.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-768x769.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-810x811.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-The-Source.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-1140x1142.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Source. Nabil El Jaouhari, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Afterwards, he moved to Michigan to work for sculptor Brett Gill, who had been one of his professors. \u201cI became his studio assistant and mold maker,\u201d says Nabil. \u201cI worked on very expensive bronze sculptures that mainly went in public places.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During this time he was not spending much time painting. \u201cBut I went back home to Lebanon to visit my mom and realized that she kept all of my studies from my undergrad years, which were mainly unfinished oil paintings,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I ended up cutting them off the stretchers and bringing them with me to the States where I started collaging with them and using woodburning at the same time. I think the early work, at its core, was about the memory and displacement, which is something that as an immigrant you get haunted by.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53310\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53310\" class=\"wp-image-53310\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"557\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-781x1024.jpg 781w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-768x1007.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-1171x1536.jpg 1171w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-810x1062.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Lava.-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-artist-1140x1495.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lava. Nabil El Jaouhari, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>He was cutting up paintings that were representational and turning them into non-representational brushstrokes forced into a form or shape and then collaging them with other pieces that came from other paintings. \u201cThis form of deconstruction and reconstruction allowed me to explore ideas of memory and displacement,\u201d he says. In this unique process, he finds motifs of impermanence versus permanence. \u201cAnd the woodburning came as an idea of something that is burned in our memory,\u201d he says, \u201cor something that is permanent versus these pieces of canvas that I\u2019m removing and putting back together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nabil had his first solo show, <em>Nar<\/em> (meaning \u201cfire\u201d in Arabic) in April at the Mark Bettis Studio\/Gallery in the River Arts District. \u201cNabil is a creative force!\u201d says Bettis. \u201cHis artwork is so unique and the imagery and detail that he puts into a piece makes you want to stare at it forever.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_53308\" style=\"width: 435px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53308\" class=\"wp-image-53308\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"425\" height=\"423\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-1024x1020.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-768x765.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-810x807.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Cover-Artist_-Nabil-El-Jaouhari-Cosmic-Fire.-Nabi-El-Jaouhari-artist-1140x1135.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-53308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cosmic Fire. Nabil El Jaouhari, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Nabil created work for the exhibit with his process contributing to the theme. \u201cThe work mainly revolved around ideas of fire, conceptually and literally, since I use fire to make my work,\u201d he says. \u201cSo I had paintings that explored ideas of passion and war, but I also had lava and friendly fire and volcanoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His latest body of work revisits some of the ideas and techniques he explored during his graduate studies, including floral paintings from the 16th century. \u201cI started painting using Japanese gouache on raw linen, then cutting that up, reassembling it on a panel and combining it with my torch work and woodburning,\u201d he says. \u201cMy work is vivid visually and conceptually. I love to be able to make the viewer fall in love with the surface and then learn so much more about ideas and concepts and allegories that I hid in the painting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Nabil El Jaouhari\u2019s work may be found at both the Mark Bettis Studio\/Gallery at 123 Roberts Street in the River Arts District, and the Mark Bettis Gallery at 15 Broadway in downtown Asheville. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/MarkBettisGallery.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MarkBettisGallery.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nabil El Jaouhari grew up, the youngest of eight children, in Lebanon with the sounds of civil war all around him and the uncertainty of having to move multiple times and, sometimes, sleep in bunkers. 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