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Abduljalil Al Sharifi uses the Iraqi traditional style as a tool to reconnect, often as an act of remembering, through his individually expressive and nuanced symbolic language, bright colors, and subject matter. In his paintings of different kinds of people and settings, he evokes a feeling of nostalgia for lost time through which a glimpse of fond memory emerges.

The paintings are part of Sharifi’s grieving process for a time and place that no longer exists, except within his memory. Recalling memories and meanings from the past in a way that might be painful, Abduljalil states that he …