The New Nation - Internet Edition

Sheikh Arif Bulbon

"To me art is an everyday experience of life, from the time we wake up to the time we go to bed. Because human being looks for perfection we don't realise that every move we make art is involved. Basically our own style is art to me. In this exhibition I worked with lines photographs and painting nature," Kaniz Azad Shaon, a student of art history and studio art in Queens University of New York, said this at the inaugural ceremony of her art exhibition titled 'Freedom' at the DRIK Gallery in the capital.

The exhibition was inaugurated on August 22 and was concluded on August 25. Some 35 art works of Shaon were displayed in the exhibition.

She said, "My line works show that how a simple line makes so much difference to our eye depending on how we see it or bend it in different direction and create a whole new world. Even in my painting and my photographs there are lines involved from brush strokes to light rays from the camera."

Shaon presented a good number of paintings, sketches, line-works and photographs in the exhibition. Most of her artworks portrayed scenic beauty of nature and caught the changing scenes.

The artist said, "In freedom, I think this is my own freedom. I want to express my freedoms and wishes through my drawings or works."

The artist also depicted different moods of human beings through her line works. She had also created other natural beings using lines.

Her paintings of landscape and seascape were very lively presentation of nature. Her inner joys and pathos also came out through her paintings. She painted both the gloomy and brighter views of nature.

Most of her line works were abstract but she very appropriately outlined the faces of humans and other living beings.

Like paintings, the artist's photographs also presented landscape and still life.

Shaon said, "My line works show how a simple line makes so much difference to our eye depending on how we see it or bend it in different direction and create a whole new world."

She always tries to express something in simplistic way. Simplicity is her own character, which expresses in her drawings and also in photographs.

"In New York, I did few shows in 05||6 in Nassau won few awards in 2007 I did the same show I am doing here in Bangladesh called Freedom. That was held in Philadelphia. I always wanted to do something for my country and so I thought this will be a great opportunity for me to start something here in Bangladesh.

In her work titled 'Deep Blue Sea,' she presented ice, which was storage in New York. But its expression was so artistic.

In her work titled 'Angry Face,' she found the reflection something anger atitude of the human being through expressing natural abstraction.

Shaon left Bangladesh in 1991. She studied there. During visiting Bangladesh the exhibition was held. At present, she is working on her degree as an art historian and in studio art