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Pretzel hard launch & 1st birthday :) Say hi to my emotional & physical security guard. I love u lil girl 🥨💕🥨🎀

A quick painting I made in 2022 when I was missing my family in Lebanon. The cyclamen is the national flower. Riddled with anxiety and thinking of everyone affected by displacement and death. 💔 Raouché 2022 24x30” Oil on canvas

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A tiny painting titled 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓟𝓲𝓬𝓷𝓲𝓬 is on view and available at the @newimageart 30 Year Anniversary show. 💜 The painting was inspired by the boxes of Chiclets gum always in my mother’s purse. Thinking deeply of all those mothers for today’s Arab Mother’s Day. ❤️‍🩹🌹 𝓜𝓮𝓶𝓸𝓻𝔂 𝓟𝓲𝓬𝓷𝓲𝓬, 2022 Oil on canvas 9 × 12 × 1 in | 22.9 × 30.5 × 2.5 cm

NEW YORK! This is the last weekend to see my work in the 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 group show @theholenyc 312 Bowery. This is not one to miss💌🧛🏼‍♀️🥀 Honored to be hanging with many wonderful artists.

𝓓𝓪𝓵𝓵𝓲𝓪𝓷𝓬𝓮, 2022 (36 x 48”) and several other rose paintings and details for good measure 🌹🌹🌹🌹

So thrilled to announce that my painting 𝘛𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭, 2024 is in the 𝓗𝓸𝓻𝓻𝓲𝓹𝓲𝓵𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 group show at @theholenyc ! Highlighting the sinister edge of surrealist impulses showing alongside artists: @skyey_eye @alicbrock @arianehughes @charlinetyberghein @hunteramosstudio @shanerceramics @josephparra @morbidmediocrity @ritamaikova @tim_brawner @viltefuller & @willthorntonart On view now at 312 Bowery, NYC 𝘛𝘳𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘛𝘰 𝘍𝘪𝘨𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘖𝘶𝘵 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘠𝘰𝘶 𝘍𝘦𝘦𝘭, 2024 Oil on canvas 36 x 48 inches ( 91 x 122 cm )

Thank you Roo Roo for choosing me. I am profoundly heartbroken to say goodbye but I know our souls are tied together forever. I do not know my adult self without you. You were my only roommate since I was 18 years old. I’ll miss your feet noises the most and how you sat by me through it all- paintings, projects, moves, world crises, heartbreaks, plane rides, accomplishments, holidays… essentially all my memories on earth thus far. I never had a dog before you and I am just understanding the weight of this type of loss, there really is nothing like it. I am lucky to have had you for 15 years and to say goodbye peacefully. Just wish I could take you through the Lincoln Tunnel one more time to see you get excited. I’m so hurt, ill miss you so much. Until we meet again my lover forever💔 ♥ ♥ ♥ Animals Have you forgotten what we were like then when we were still first rate and the day came fat with an apple in its mouth it's no use worrying about Time but we did have a few tricks up our sleeves and turned some sharp corners the whole pasture looked like our meal we didn't need speedometers we could manage cocktails out of ice and water I wouldn't want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days -Frank O’Hara

In Miami in spirit ♡, two works are at the Bₒᵤₙcₑ exhibition at @oolitearts curated by @stormascher @superpositiongallery. Please stop by if you are there ♡. Although it has been a difficult time to celebrate, I am still super thankful to Storm for having me in your beautiful show.

𝘔𝘺 𝘉𝘢𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘰𝘯'𝘵 𝘓𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘯, 2023 is on view in Brooklyn, NY at @swivelgallery in the group show 𝙱𝚘𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚢 𝚘𝚏 𝙳𝚎𝚜𝚒𝚛𝚎 curated by @pitterpadder. Thank you @swivelgallery, @_graham_wilson_ for being a friend, and @pitterpadder for having me! 36 x 48” in ( 88.9 x 121.92 cm ) Oil on canvas 🥀 Show Info: Swivel Gallery is pleased to present an alluring group exhibition, “Botany of Desire.”  Opening 10/14 from 6 - 8 PM ET at 396 Johnson Avenue, BK  “Botany of Desire” explores how certain plants have evolved to gratify human desires - specifically for sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control and healing  - and, in turn, how plant species have used man to meet their own benefit. Given that plants are immobile, they have learned to be the ultimate chemist in order to further their reproduction. The exhibition draws its inspiration from a book of the same title by Michael Pollan, which questions the idea that people are the sole drivers of domestication. Weaving threads from personal histories, the artists share critical representations of flora and vegetation intertwined with vulnerable human experiences.   Featuring artists Caroline Absher, Lindsay Adams, Camilla Alberti, Hangama Amiri, Bhasha Chakrabarti, Chitra Ganesh, Shyama Golden, Alison Kudlow, Alicia Reyes McNamara, Isabella Mellado,  Bianca Nemelc, Devin Osorio, Hilda Palafox, Luján Pérez Hernández, Kelly Shami, Ivana Štulić, Abhishek Tuiwala, Khari Turner, Miko Veldkamp and Letha Wilson. Curated by Sadaf Padder.

It has been a busy few weeks and I need to say thank you to the @theholenyc for having me in their booth at @kiaf_official in Seoul. ♡ ˚.*ೃ Thankful to be apart of your presentation with other wonderful artists.

Thrilled to announce my contribution to HEART OF A TIGER, a benefit group show for @plannedparenthood ♥ Exhibition text by @marilynminter ♥ Curated by @le__fuchs ♥ Opening 9.7.2023 in NYC ♥