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Kohn Gallery is delighted to announce the solo exhibition of Saudi Arabian-artist Alia Ahmad. This will be Ahmad’s debut presentation both with the gallery, and in the United States. In من الحلم .. . روضة (A meadow … from a dream), Ahmad’s large-scale paintings pay tribute to her home, the industrial desert city of Riyadh­. Her excavations of time, place, and memory transpose meticulous, vibrant color palettes, into abstracted landscapes­­.

Ahmad creates social spaces within linear impressions of the desert, playing on the tense contradiction between extreme emptiness of place and lush …