Zaki Knapen
Winter in Chicago, 45 x 55, acrylic
Rendezvous, 55 x 35, acrylic and oil stick
No Room for Buffalo, 47 x 55, mixed media
Compromis, 30 x 24, acrylic
Plasmania, 16 x 20, mixed media
My work carries expression of freedom and exhilaration. Sometimes paint is allowed to drop down the canvas on a pattern
of many colors. Fragmentary particles of images of the world challenged by mood or total absence of it. A horizon, with
questions, in the hope to make contact. I create volume in the emptiness stripped bare naked of any realism. The titles are
a reflection of the past; countries I lived and worked in. As Martha Takayama, director of the Tepper Takayama Fine Arts
Gallery in Boston said about my work:: “Lyrical swirls of his intense palette result in decorative images with a French
influence.”
of many colors. Fragmentary particles of images of the world challenged by mood or total absence of it. A horizon, with
questions, in the hope to make contact. I create volume in the emptiness stripped bare naked of any realism. The titles are
a reflection of the past; countries I lived and worked in. As Martha Takayama, director of the Tepper Takayama Fine Arts
Gallery in Boston said about my work:: “Lyrical swirls of his intense palette result in decorative images with a French
influence.”
Image 1, 8 x 10, mixed media
Apres Tout, 16 x 20, mixed media on canvas
Trading Spaces, 25 x 57, oil/acrylic on canvas
Ca Suffit, 36 x 60, oil/acrylic on canvas
The Winter Camp, mixed media
No Way to Hunt, 18 x 24, mixed media
