Through Art, Creating a Dialogue Between Palestinians and Others

THE WASHINGTON POST
By Mark Jenkins

“Spring Flight.” Installation of 12 gouache paintings by Helen Zughaib. (Courtesy Helen Zughaib and Gallery Al-Quds)

WASHINGTON, DC---The path to Dagmar Painter’s office at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds leads past a crimson wall, painted that color in mid-August as a backdrop for a piece in the current show, Helen Zughaib’s “Fractured Spring.” The Foggy Bottom gallery, whose name pairs the Hebrew “Jerusalem” with the Arabic “Al-Quds,” was Painter’s idea. To Zughaib, Painter is a partner as well as a patron. “I’ll talk to her about my concepts and what I want to do. And she’ll listen to me and interject certain things. [link]

Fractured Spring: New Work by Helen Zughaib. Through Oct. 17 at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery Al-Quds, 2425 Virginia Ave. NW; 202-338-1958; www.thejerusalemfund.org