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Date(s) - 02/14/2015
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
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Re:Find Gallery
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A very special Valentine’s Day opening entitled, “Father & Son, Echo of the Soul & Spirit.” On Saturday, February 14, please help us celebrate the special love between a father and son. Lehigh Valley artist Khalil Allaik and his seven year old first-grader, Ibrahim have been creating art by working side by side since Ibrahim was two. (At Ibrahim’s request, he and his father will donate 25% of their sales to the Pediatric Cancer Foundation of the Lehigh Valley, Inc.)
Khalil’s artwork combines aspects of the organic, the anthropomorphic and the abstract. His inspiration comes from his “individual experience of cosmic forces such as the relationship of the earth to the universe, and the past to the future.” Khalil says, “I close my eyes. I dive within. I realize that the inner space is deep and infinite. There, inside, I travel. My artwork presents views I have captured in my travels through cities that I have built in the cavities of my mind… My work is the dialogue between these two limitless universes, one within and one beyond. It is the dialogue between Matter and the Void.”
And, says Khalil, “Ibrahim’s artwork is an echo of the cosmic ripple of his father’s soul. His art genre is uniquely from his spirit that continues to evolve within this infinite universe.”
In his native Lebanon, Alliak worked as an art dealer for eight years. He is a graduate of Lebanese University, Beirut. His work has been shown internationally. Allaik has lived and worked in the Lehigh Valley for the past 12 years.