NADA New York 2022

Haji Omar’s paintings feature shimmering surfaces and meticulously hand-painted details. Her works combine themes of language and landscape with the formal concerns of pattern-based abstraction such as repetition and flatness. This painting is from her series entitled ‘Ascension.’ The concept of seven heavens in Islamic mythology provides the conceptual inspiration for the works. Each painting in this series includes an overall pattern of tiny dashes capped with dots in metallic paint, overlaid against repeated bands of faded color. The center of this painting features the Arabic number waahid, or one.