Tuesday, February 2 through Saturday, April 10
At the Vienna Arts Society Village Green Gallery, 513 Maple Ave W
(Located In the Village Green Shopping Center on the corner of Nutley Street and Maple Ave W)

The Vienna Arts Society presents Improvisations, abstract paintings by Diaa Bekheet

Diaa Bekheet is an award-winning multimedia journalist, and self-taught artist. He learned the fundamentals of art in elementary, middle and high schools. He was highly influenced by his uncle, Ibrahim Shahda, whose paintings are hanging in Musee Calvet, next to Paul Cezanne’s in Aix-en-Provence, Southern France. Diaa has been painting on/off since he graduated from college with a BSc in 1982. As a broadcaster, Diaa hosted hundreds of jazz shows, and got to know the art of improvisation first-hand. That’s what he does in abstract painting: improvisation.

Diaa’s strong desire to express art on canvas made him turn pen to a paintbrush and translate skills learned as a writer-photojournalist into visual art. His paintings – which have strong texture with a softness, rhythm, and energy – are both abstract expressionistic and sometimes minimal. He paints with oil, acrylic, house paint and other mixed media.