The Mark Hachem Gallery is pleased to present “Headway,” a solo show by Lebanese artist Charles Khoury that will be exhibited from the 8th of November until the 22nd of November.

Primordial shapes that oscillate between the representational and the abstract, painted in a striking palette of grays and vibrant saturated colors, fill the canvases of Lebanon-based artist Charles Khoury. Khoury’s boldly painted contour lines crowd his dynamic compositions, which are often noted for the hues that dominate them. He was formally trained in lithography at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, and has created paintings, sculptures, and lithographs. Khoury has exhibited extensively in Beirut as a member of the Sursock Museum’s Salon d’Automne, as well as the Lebanese Artists and Sculptors Association, and the International Association of Plastic Arts through UNESCO. Outside Lebanon, Khoury has shown at the Abu Dhabi Art Fair and Art 14 London.

Artist Charles Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1966 and graduated from ALBA in 2005. He isa professor of Fine Arts at the Saint Joseph School Antoura. He is a member of the Salon d’Automne of the Sursock Museum, the International Association of Fine Arts - Unesco in Paris, and the Association of Lebanese Artists. His art is a mixture of intertwined primal shapes and playful colours. His work has been displayed in solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Kuwait, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Ivory Coast, Bangladesh, the UK and France. In 2008, the Nicolas Sursock Museum in Beirut granted him the “Special Jury Award”, and he won the “Artist Residency: Lithography workshop” in Morocco in 2013.