News
Shaan Syed and Lewis Brander included in ‘Unreal City: Abstract Painting in London’ at Saatchi Gallery, London
18 October – 17 November 2024
Vardaxoglou Autumn 2024 Programme
This Autumn 2024, we are thrilled to present solo exhibitions with Thérèse Oulton, Shaan Syed, and Niamh O’Malley
Vardaxoglou at Dallas Invitational Art Fair, 4 – 6 April 2024
Vardaxoglou Gallery Room #1719
Dallas Invitational, Fairmont Hotel, 1717 N Akard Street, Dallas, Texas, 75201
ArtReview: “The Conversation: Nurjahan Akhlaq and Shaan Syed”
Shaan Syed discusses the Pakistani diaspora, miniature painting and the ever-present weight of the Partition of India
‘Shaan Syed: Extended Family’ reviewed by Time Out
[Shaan Syed] takes the visual language of American abstraction (Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, Jasper Johns, etc) and smashes it into non-Western symbolism. Two works here depict the spiral minaret of the Great Mosque of Samarra in Iraq, but rendered as flat blocks, layered in steps; historic symbol becomes visual tool, a divider of the plane.