Rama Kareem
“It’s Forming”
Painting
2025
oil paint on wood panel
18x24 inch
“It’s Forming” captures a moment of transformation suspended in time. The title of this piece refers to the moment when a shape emerges, but it is also a metaphor for a process that is still in motion. At the center, the organic shapes create a sense of growth and tension, and they reflect the emotional and bodily transformations that are happening. The horizontal line running through the background divides the canvas into the sky and the earth, heightening the sense of upward movement and grounding the composition.
Work by
Rama Kareem
Drawing and Painting
“My work lives in the fertile tension between spontaneity and control, structure and dissolution. Using oil and china-marker, I create enigmatic "chromatic organisms," which appear between the...” [More]