Grand Opening: Sabira Gallery Launches Art Collection Online

Sabira Gallery can be now be visited online at www.sabiragallery.com. The collection of art includes abstract, rich-textured, paintings primarily in water media on wood and linen with thin, translucent layers juxtaposed with intricate line-work, often accompanied with Urdu and Arabic calligraphy. The collection is also comprised of fine art photography reflecting a contemporary and abstract interpretation of nature. The featured artists are father and daughter: Dr. Shams Rasheed and Saba Rasheed.

New York, (PRWEB) April 29, 2006 -- Sabira Gallery can be now be visited online at www.sabiragallery.com. The collection of art includes abstract, rich-textured, paintings primarily in water media on wood and linen with thin, translucent layers juxtaposed with intricate line-work, often accompanied with Urdu and Arabic calligraphy. The collection is also comprised of fine art photography reflecting a contemporary and abstract interpretation of nature. The exploration of color is undeniably very characteristic when combined with the dramatic large format printing.

The featured artists are father and daughter: Dr. Shams Rasheed and Saba Rasheed. Dr. Shams Rasheed has been an accomplished photographer for more than 40 years. Now free from the rigors of his primary career in neonatology, he is devoted to combining his photography work with his daughter’s painting. Saba Rasheed expands the science and quality of color in her high art paintings along with weaving in her experience as a textile designer, digital artist and multimedia Web designer. These two genres produce exciting and truly unique works that are breathtaking in both scope and vision. "Creating a visual symmetry from combining our work together involves a successful procession of so many technical steps,” said Saba Rasheed. “However, I feel we achieve this primarily because our individual styles and understanding of each other's work compliments the other".

To highlight the works of both artists and the combined works, Sabira Gallery navigates visitors as if you were actually inside a physical gallery.

About The Artists:

Shams Rasheed is an artist who devotes a great deal of passion exploring the beauty in all things in nature as well as occasional foray into the realm of man made objects. The underlying component of his photography is the play of color, sometimes vibrant and dramatic and other times soft and subtle, but unique in its form. Color is the essential component in all of Dr. Rasheed's work, along with his innate ability to showcase the subtleties in objects that are missed by the naked eye. Objects range from rusted metal, chipped paint, tar, algae to the nuances deep within a flower.

Saba Rasheed is an artist and designer in textiles, as well as a digital, web, and multimedia designer, all of which influences have contributed to her work's style and approach. Working with digital tools on a daily basis, combined with her experience with old world designs and textures has created a very intricate balance of contemporary design with a classic feel. Texture plays a vital role perhaps from the textile exposure, and color is actually the most important factor in her work.

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