Doris Bittar: Maps

Secured States: Allemangne - Turko, 2011 | Security envelope patterns on tar paper | 101.6 x 152.4 cm

Secured States: The Mediterranean 2, 2009 | Security envelope patterns on tar paper | 101.6 x 152.4 cm

Secured States: The United States 1, 2010-11 | Security envelope patterns collage on tar paper | 101.6 x 152.4 cm

Secured States: The Arab World, 2010 | Security envelope patterns & printed tracing paper on tar paper | 101.6 x 152.4 cm

ecured States: The Mediterranean 1, 2009 | Security envelope patterns on rag and tar paper | 76.2 x 101.6 cm

Insecure State: Cuba, 2010 | Security envelope patterns collage on digital print, layered in a shadow box | 28 cm x 43.2 cm

Insecure State: Greece, 2010 | Security envelope pattern within shadow box | 20.3 cm x 20.3 cm

Secured States: The Caribbean 1, 2010 | Security envelope patterns collage on digital print | 28 cm x 43.2 cm

biography

Doris Bittar

Born in Iraq
Lives and works in USA

I am a multi-disciplinary artist who closely follows history and intertwines it with pattern and decorative structures. In part, my art tests a pattern's veracity to see if it may act as an identifying unit of culture, which I call cultural DNA. Also, because the word “decorum” is related to the word ”decoration,” I wonder if decoration may be a code for behavior, for how a room should be organized to spur dialogue? Could pattern and decoration be animated into lattices or structures that guide and bridge?

Doris Bittar: Maps

Doris Bittar

Doris Bittar: Spindled constructions 2020