Contemporary Art
Schwartz Art Collection
Schwartz Art Collection
John Jurayj
(American, born 1968)
Untitled (Ruin, 1991, #1), 2006
John Jurayj, Untitled (Ruin, 1991, #1), 2006, oil on linen. 60 x 40 in., Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School
This work is part of Jurayj's exploration of imagery from the thirty-year conflict in Lebanon, his family's homeland. Paint becomes a vehicle to reinforce, disrupt and elide both image and meaning as well as representations of war and trauma.