Khaled Chamma: 'Morphosis'

8 September - 15 October 2023

  • Dutton is pleased to announce the exhibition Morphosis

    new works on paper by Khaled Chamma

     

    September 8 - October 15

    Opening: September 8, 6-9pm

     


    Made over the last year with wax-based color pencils on paper; Morphosis is a collection of drawings that represent a meeting of the natural and psychological worlds within the confines of a page. Built upon a gestural flow with a repetitive method of markmaking, blending what can be seen with what can only be felt, each drawing captures a multitude of scenes, movements, and possibilities. A saturation blurs the lines between the simple and complex; the drawings heave and swell with visual information and possibilities, and become an embodiment of time and emotion. The works are inspired by the grace of living things and the cruelty so integral to the functioning of the natural world. They emanate feelings​ of the primordial, making visible the similarities between all lived experiences.
  • Lavender with bees, 2023
    Gouache on on paper
    18.5 x 5.75 inches
  • Khaled Chamma (b. 1992) is a Syrian Australian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Using wax-based color pencils, Chamma creates... Khaled Chamma (b. 1992) is a Syrian Australian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Using wax-based color pencils, Chamma creates... Khaled Chamma (b. 1992) is a Syrian Australian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Using wax-based color pencils, Chamma creates... Khaled Chamma (b. 1992) is a Syrian Australian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Using wax-based color pencils, Chamma creates...

    Khaled Chamma (b. 1992) is a Syrian Australian artist based in Naarm (Melbourne), Australia. Using wax-based color pencils, Chamma creates drawings on paper that weave multilayered imagery of natural and psychological worlds. Born to immigrant parents, Chamma lived in Syria for the middle ten of his thirty years. Chamma earnt a Diploma of Visual Art from RMIT in Printmaking (2013);and a Bachelor of Fine Art from RMIT in Expanded Studio Practice (2020). In 2022, his drawing “Summer Daydream” won Brunswick Street Gallery's 'Fifty Squared' art prize. Chamma's first solo exhibition entitled 'Ootheca' opened at Brunswick Street Gallery (2023), and six of his drawings were exhibited in West Space’s 30th anniversary group show alongside artists such as Susan Te Kahurangi King entitled 'Unison' (2023), curated by Sebastian Henry-Jones. This is Chamma's debut solo exhibition in New York.

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  • Fire Lake, 2022-23, Colored pencil on paper, 22 x 30 inches
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