Exhibitions - Current Events

The exquisite explosions of Fawad Khan's paintings combine the bourgeoning issue of war with several automotive motifs that represent different cultural experiences and influences throughout his life. His works question the use of the automobile, an invention used for the purpose of transportation but becoming more and more a tool of destruction. Of Pakistani roots, born in Libya and growing up in suburban Maryland, Khan focuses on car bombs, Pakistani buses and muscle cars, putting them in conversation with one another. Surrounding the deconstructed car forms are the spiraling forms of disintegrating camouflaged figures. The disintegration of military fatigue prints results in a Deconstructivist manipulation of wave-like camouflage forms where one can almost hear the silent explosion of the car bombs.

 

Fawad Khan was born in Tripoli, Libya in 1978 and currently lives and works in New York.