Dodi Tabbaa

Dodi Tabbaa, who, keeping up with times and using technology, rendered her works into modern art, these paper prints “reference digital pixels, LED lighting and high-definition effects” to encapsulate energy and colour, warmth and geometry, more familiar landscapes – if straining the eye and looking at them from afar – and “glow with almost neon shades of energy and enhanced colour lifting up each square, giving each an individual burst of an aura-like beam”. A modern take on her previous “stills” of iconic characters, the present images are pared down to a minimum, often offering just the pixelated colours, side by side or overlapping, influenced, by the artist’s admission, by Japanese video games, “especially from the artist Keiji Inafune”, but also by “the classic colour theorists and pop and minimalist artists of the 20th century, such as Josef Albers, Dan Flavin or Victor Vasarely”.

Born 1952 in Quetta, Pakistan 
BFA Honors in Fine Arts and Graphic Design, Lahore, Pakistan 
Post graduate diploma printmaking, textile design, typography, United Kingdom 
1977-1979 worked as a graphic designer, Bangladesh, UK, Jordan 
1980-1981 worked as an art and media consultant for UNESCO/UNFPA in Syria 
1982 Helsinki, Finland, attended course on art gallery management 
1982-1984 Manager, Alia Art Gallery, Amman, Jordan 
1985-1987 Manager, The Petra Gallery, Amman, Jordan