Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Dapke, 2021, 30” x 24”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021 Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Apple tea, 2021, 5” x 7”, oil on canvasWater jug, 2021, 7” x 5”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Endives, 2021, 16” x 20”, oil on canvasSweet Cloth, 2021, 20” x 24”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Peacock, 2021, 27” x 36”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Mary II, 2020, 16” x 12”, oil on canvasMary IV, 2020, 14” x 12”, oil on canvasChalice, 2021, 30” x 24”, oil on canvasSundry Rags, 2021, 16” x 20”, oil on canvasSerpent, 2021, 14” x 16”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Finger Bowl, 20” x 16”, oil on canvas Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Garden Arch, 2021, 65” x 48”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Three Arches, 2021, 65” x 48”, oil on canvasRisha Plume, 2021, 65” x 48”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Shtawi, 14” x 11”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Tapestry II, 2021, 30.5” x 24”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Mint Tea, 6” x 8”, oil on canvasInstallation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021Installation View, Cloth and Feather at Birch Contemporary, 2021 (photo by the artist)
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Chantal Khoury acknowledges the gap in Lebanon’s recorded history and her impulse to offset cultural withdrawal. She approaches meaning and methodology by threading Lebanese historiography with techniques of erasure in the studio. Her paintings use inherited motifs to offer ahistorical forms separated from their referents. Khoury focuses on forming rather than the form and looks to the legacy of erasure as a productive tool in painting.
