Abdulaziz Ashour Born in Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia   Abdulaziz Ashour was born in 1962 in the traditional part of Jeddah. Like most Saudi artists, he has combined his career as an artist with a steady job, and for the past 25 years has been an employee at the Ministry of Energy. This has had a considerable effect on his artistic production and accounts for the preponderance of circuit boards, wires and CDs within the plane of his canvases. By 2009 Ashour plans to be working as a full-time artist for the first time. He is a painter and participated in the Edge of Arabia exhibition in London in 2008 where he showed two acrylic works on canvas of large size (160 x 160 cm) titled Soft White I & II. 2009). Soft White takes white as its dominant compositional force. Ashour refers to this color as his bride and treats it with delicacy. Elsewhere in the work you can see his interest in invisible lines of technological communication, their diagrammatic representation and the tension he perceived in the region following the 1st Gulf War. A look at Ashours work, which stands out among other abstract painters because of both a vision of beauty that has maturity and a truthfulness to his own experience, was allowed at the Nabatt exhibition in Shanghai in 2010.           Courtyard Gallery all rights reserved. privacy policy