Pocahontas Press is pleased to announce that one of our recent publications, Between Two Spaces: Reflections on the Spiritual in Art, by Halide Salam, has been nominated for the 2008 National Book Award in Nonfiction.
Salam is a Muslim American who came to the United States from Pakistan as a teen in order to pursue an education in art. She is now a self-proclaimed “philosopher in paint” and has been called “a true artist, one who reaches far into the depth of her soul and heart to bring her experience, her truth and her reality to us, the viewer” by Tim Davis, director and owner of International Visions - The Gallery, in Washington, DC.
In Between Two Spaces, Salam explains the development and progression of her artistic style as being cultured from a combination of influences from her family, her religion’s teachings, her own experiences and her personal beliefs. Her understanding of nature and thirst for knowledge are fused and embedded into the forms she creates in her paintings. In addition to the book’s rich assortment of autobiographical, historical, intellectual, and philosophical information, Salam includes full-color photographs of some of her paintings.
Her work was displayed at the William King Regional Arts Center in Abingdon, Virginia, and will be displayed at City Gallery in Galax, Virginia, starting June 13, 2008.
When Halide Salam first arrived in the United States, she had a four-year scholarship to attend Columbus College of Art and Design in Ohio. Since then she has graduated from New Mexico Highlands University with a Master’s degree in painting and drawing and is currently Professor of Art at Radford University in Virginia.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
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