The New Math, Acrylic, 7x5 feet, 2015“Using bright cheery colors and the graphic style of American comic books, Ibrahim superimposed his personal life stories onto Old Master compositions, such as The Birth of Wonder Woman after Botticelli, thus realizing multi-layered and complex autobiographical stories as well as social and political commentaries.”

-Martha Henry

 

ISSA IBRAHIM interviewed on THE LEONARD LOPATE SHOW Wednesday June 1, 2016 on NPR WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820

Grate Again, 24"x36", oil and acrylic on canvas, 2016

Americanism, 84"x96", oil and carylic on vinyl screen, 2016,

Winner of prestigious Edward R. Murrow & THIRD COAST 2014 Awards for BEST NEWS DOCUMENTARY NPR’s ‘The Hospital Always Wins’ An hour long feature by Laura Starecheski for State Of The Re:Union

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  ‘THE HOSPITAL ALWAYS WINS: A MEMOIR’ by Issa Ibrahim
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“Using bright cheery colors and the graphic style of American comic books, Ibrahim superimposed his personal life stories onto Old Master compositions, such as The Birth of Wonder Woman after Botticelli, thus realizing multi-layered and complex autobiographical stories as well as social and political commentaries.”

-Martha Henry

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