Siddiq Khan
About the Artist
Siddiq Khan was born in Guyana and raised in Canada and London. He received a Diploma of Fine Art at the Byam Shaw School of Art in London and has continued studying at the Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY, and College of Santa Fe, NM. He currently lives and works in Santa Fe.
Siddiq Khan: Topography
Siddiq Khan merges philosophical notions of artistic intention and the process of art making as a journey, by taking visual inspiration from maps. The Path series explores the idea of a circular journey, that, wherever you are, you are at the center of your own story. Spiral forms in bold colors that subtly blend with a map-like, patchwork visual field suggest that the journey takes precedence
over place, incorporating the idea of place into the larger idea of the search for completeness. The linear spirals emanate outward from a center but can be thought of as extending beyond the edge of the picture frame. By building up layers of acrylic paint over collaged drawings and maps of areas around Abiquiu, New Mexico and Carson National Forrest, Khan creates a surface for the application of oil paints that are then scraped off and re-applied in a process that makes each layer transparent to the layer underneath it. The result is a surface balanced between tension and harmony, abstracted yet informed by figurative sources.