To love a painting is to feel that this presence is... not an object but a voice. ~Andre Malraux
Happy New Year! What fun we have ahead of us together... I look forward to a year full of light and love with renewed perceptions and appreciation for all we have and create around us. Thank you all for your interest, enthusiasm and support. I am eager to share ideas and inspirations about art and the important role it plays in our well being. I created a StudioSoad Facebook page dedicated to art related sharing and I'd love to hear your thoughts. Please click here to "Like" StudioSoad on Facebook and join the conversation. I'd love to hear from you!
I almost always want to sit by the window. I love looking out - seeing and feeling different types of space, especially the change of perspective looking down, like when I am on a rooftop or in an airplane. The surprise, mystery, or wonder at what I am observing is a thrill. It isn’t always important to know what it is I am looking at. Sometimes it is better not knowing but just enjoying the ambiguity and more carefully noticing colors, textures, lines, shapes, qualities of light or movement. I am endlessly interested in exploring varieties of visual delight; that pleasure we can take in the everyday experience of looking… and seeing anew. I grew up with my Egyptian Muslim father and with my Basque-Italian-American Catholic mother, first in Egypt, and then in California. The mix they created in coming together continues to inform my identity and influence my perspectives and explorations. I wanted to change my name to Susan when I was eight years old so I could blend in more easily on California soil. My parents said no; I am grateful.
My formal painting education came from studying with artists including Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Roland Peterson, Roy DeForest, Mike Henderson, David Hollowell, and Squeak Carnwath at the University of California, Davis, where I earned my degree in Art Studio. San Francisco, California, is the place I call home, a city that I adore, that feeds me well and that keeps me inspired to create and share.
Please write to me, soad@studiosoad.com, with any comments or questions about my work, including availability and prices, or to arrange for a studio visit. Keep up to date with my art related events by joining my StudioSoad mailing list. Visit the Arc Studios & Gallery website for more information about my studio in SOMA, San Francisco. Read San Francisco writer and photographer Julie Michelle's February 2011 interview with me here. Thank you for your interest and support and hope to see you soon!
I almost always want to sit by the window. I love looking out - seeing and feeling different types of space, especially the change of perspective looking down, like when I am on a rooftop or in an airplane. The surprise, mystery, or wonder at what I am observing is a thrill. It isn’t always important to know what it is I am looking at. Sometimes it is better not knowing but just enjoying the ambiguity and more carefully noticing colors, textures, lines, shapes, qualities of light or movement. I am endlessly interested in exploring varieties of visual delight; that pleasure we can take in the everyday experience of looking… and seeing anew. I grew up with my Egyptian Muslim father and with my Basque-Italian-American Catholic mother, first in Egypt, and then in California. The mix they created in coming together continues to inform my identity and influence my perspectives and explorations. I wanted to change my name to Susan when I was eight years old so I could blend in more easily on California soil. My parents said no; I am grateful.
My formal painting education came from studying with artists including Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, Roland Peterson, Roy DeForest, Mike Henderson, David Hollowell, and Squeak Carnwath at the University of California, Davis, where I earned my degree in Art Studio. San Francisco, California, is the place I call home, a city that I adore, that feeds me well and that keeps me inspired to create and share.
Please write to me, soad@studiosoad.com, with any comments or questions about my work, including availability and prices, or to arrange for a studio visit. Keep up to date with my art related events by joining my StudioSoad mailing list. Visit the Arc Studios & Gallery website for more information about my studio in SOMA, San Francisco. Read San Francisco writer and photographer Julie Michelle's February 2011 interview with me here. Thank you for your interest and support and hope to see you soon!
© Soad A. Kader
Artwork
above San Francisco
above the Nile
abrazos: above & close
abrazos: monotypes
courting the goal
drawing lines
faces
veil, reveal
