Now at FOUNTAIN HOUSE GALLERY

The Flaneur

June 20th thru August 7th

The Flaneur is curated by Adam Yokell, founder of Foundwork, a new online platform connecting artists and collaborators across the global art community. For this show at Fountain House Gallery, said Yokell, “We asked the artists to inhabit the role of flâneur themselves, reflecting on the bustle and diversity of city life as only artists can.”

Yokell said, “We’re also presenting work that’s more fantastical, such as Issa Ibrahim’s Dad Blast!, where a caped, masked man stands at the edge of a rooftop, smiling at us as he decides whether to fly (or jump?) from the ledge.”

Click above image to view this and other works by Issa Ibrahim on ARTSY

COMING in SEPTEMBER  to FOUNTAIN HOUSE GALLERY

“HEAVY SAUCE” curated by Gerasimos Floratos

My First Heart Attack, candied framed lyrics to original song with accompanying video…Featured in the Fountain House Gallery exhibition At The Table curated by Monty Blanchard & Leslie Tcheyan

Click image below to see and hear Issa explain this latest work

Click image below to see and hear Issa explain this latest work

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

 Out Now

  ‘THE HOSPITAL ALWAYS WINS: A MEMOIR’ by Issa Ibrahim
Published by CHICAGO REVIEW PRESS

 About the artwork-

“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

 

  

Listen to Issa in NPR hour long audio story The Hospital Always Wins