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AYDA MANSOUR

AYDA MANSOUR

An Emotional Palette

19 November – 20 December 2015

Opening Reception to meet the artist
19 November 6pm – 8pm

Syra Arts is pleased to present an artist from a new generation of talented young and up and coming artists from the Arab World. Ayda Mansour, has been able, through her art, to portray the depth of her experiences and the social, political and cultural issues that she has faced throughout her lifetime. She portrays her strong and personal emotions through a carefully and deliberately chosen color palette and different paint techniques.Syra Arts is pleased to present an artist from a new generation of talented young and up and coming artists from the Arab World. Ayda Mansour, has been able, through her art, to portray the depth of her experiences and the social, political and cultural issues that she has faced throughout her lifetime. She portrays her strong and personal emotions through a carefully and deliberately chosen color palette and different paint techniques.

In this exhibition, Ayda’s works capture different emotions that have consumed her. Emotions, that, as an introvert, she has difficulty expressing. She has been a witness to the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, and has lived between different cultures always experiencing the dynamic pull between the east and the west. She begins with an honest and realistic portrayal of unspeakable feelings and then takes it to deeper levels of emotions, which she artistically expresses through color variation and movement on canvas. Through the release of dynamic colors on canvas, her works take the audience on a ride from realism and surrealism to abstraction and allows the viewers to let their imaginations hold individual interpretations.

Mansour was born in Cairo into an artistic family, with a grandmother an established artist and an uncle who is an award-wining photographer. She grew up immersed in art and surrounded by creativity and imagination. After graduating from the American School in Cairo, Ayda has studied Fine Arts at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada where she graduated with distinction in 2012. Ayda has held several exhibitions in Montreal, Cairo and most recently in New York City. She currently lives and works in Montreal