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SHOP ON ARTSY for artwork seen in FOUNTAIN HOUSE GALLERY

See UNBOUND: Authentic Visions and Voices curated by Bonnie Astor & Lois Stavsky from ART Break OUT  Opening Reception January 9, 2020

at THE LOCAL NYC 1302 44th Ave, Long Island City, NY

click on image below to watch video and learn about about this painting and show

Can We Flee From The Mess You've Made?, 35" x 66", ink, acrylic on unstretched canvas, Spangenberg:Ibrahim 2019

Issa’s photograph ‘NYC Behind A Border Wall’ on view and for sale in the show WE SEE YOU, curated by Frank Maresca at Fountain House Gallery 1/9- 2/21/2020

Ibrahim, Issa NYC behind a border wall

 

5-Free the Slave, latex and enamel, 72x60

3. Mad City, oil and acrylic on canvas, 22x28 inches, 2017, $600

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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

A Great Wonder in Heaven, Rev 12.1, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 108" x 55", 2017

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

SHAZAM! oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, 2017

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

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 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

Child is Father to the Superman Acrylic 2014God touching Superman 62x62 2013

Crucifixion, acrylic, 60x72 2012Mourning Superman 20x20 2013The Last Judgment of Superheroes, Acrylic on vinyl screen, 5 x 12 feet, 2013 OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

 Birth of Wonder Woman, oil on canvas, 24"x36", 2015Luncheon on Grass, oil on canvas, 24x36, 2015Fall Of Super Man, oil on canvas, 24"x36", 2015

   Love Among The Ruins 2012

wonder madonna and child, oil on canvas, 9x12 inches, 2005

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