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Silver Scarab Studios

I am a multidisciplinary artist opening a live visual/performance arts gallery on the iconic PCH

Silver Scarab Studios

I am a multidisciplinary artist opening a live visual/performance arts gallery on the iconic PCH

Oceanside CA
Entertainment Main Street Community Media Art
I didn't choose it, it chose me. This project is an extension of my multidisciplinary work I have done all over the world and the many artists that have been brought together in this improvisational magic movement.
Ayanna Bassiouni Artistic Director @ Silver Scarab Studios
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Why you may want to support us...

1 Support art and culture in this moment of time where fear and separation is prevailing
2 Help an artist complete an 11 series work, "the Glorified Grotesque Gorgeousness of her without shame"
3 Receive an original piece of art work from the live painting project

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Ayanna Bassiouni
Artistic Director
Organizing and producing international artist collectives that produces incredible bodies of work and represents true cultural exchange.

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Glorified Grotesque Gorgeousness of her without shame (series of 11 paintings)

11 pieces of original work created live (Public works) 

9' by 7', Acrylic, latex, spray paint, glitter, fabric ink, stain, pencil, oil sticks on raw canvas

This body of work is an extension of the live painting and improvisational theater work I have been creating all over the world. These pieces are performed live in a collaboration with musicians, singers. poets, and dancers.

'Glorified Grotesque Gorgeousness of her without shame' 1/11

This improvisational movement is a response to the ever increasing gap between art and culture. The paintings are the vehicles of social commentary and exist outside of the constructed one dimensional art world that isolates and commodifies artists works. The combination of multiple genre and art mediums using the art of improvisation to connect us all with the magical potential of the human experience.

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Glorified Grotesque Gorgeousness of her without shame' 2/11, 3/11

Throughout the years I have developed this concept here in the United States, Santiago Cuba, and Mexico. These are a couple of flyers and publications from a few of these shows:






Ayanna Bassiouni

www.silverscarabstudios.com / 504-390-8983
MFA Goddard College(Interdisciplinary art practice)
BFA University of California at Berkeley(studio art practice)

Artist Statement
My relationship to my work is founded in the spiritual. The source that I pull from is of
an energetic principle that leads me into creativity and self -discovery. I am moved by
the abstraction of reality and tenaciously work towards the desegregation of abstract and
linear patterns within my work. I am a multi-dimensional creator, which is a responsibility
that disciplines my life and facilitates the endless flow of synchronicity and magical life
experiences.
As a creator I am bound by my passion and reverence for the beauty of every
moment. I am in awe of the mathematics involved in subtle connections. I recycle the
infamous sorrows. I live this creative
process, my experience with any
material I can access. My work is a
kind of language that I use to process
the visual and energetic stimuli, re-
creating; finding all the beauty and
truth in the midst of the ruble from the
passing of time.


Education

2011-2014 MFA Interdisciplinary art Goddard College
1997-2001 BA Art Practice University of California at Berkeley

Experience

2010-2020 Silver Scarab Studios/ Independent artist
collective/founder/ artistic director

Exhibitions/Publications/Scholarships

10/19 Farewell to the Flesh/ Improvisational theater/ Ashara Ekundayo Gallery/ Oakland Ca
10/19 Fruition/ Group show/ Ashara Ekundayo gallery/Oakland Ca
05/18 Farewell to the Flesh/ Independent show/ Improvisational theater/ NOLA
01/17 Produced, Directed, Edited music video/ Egyptian second line / Nicholas Payton,
Paytone Records/Nola
06/16 La Linea/ Silver Scarab Studios collective group show/ Santiago Cuba
08/15 Ashe Cultural arts center/Bones and Flowers , independent show/ NOLA
03/15 Emancipating Boundaries/ Graduate Group show/ Port Townsend, WA Fort
Warden
09/14 Omi Gallery, Impact Hub Oakland/ Group show with WEAD/ Divine Feminine
09/12 to 09/14 Fort Warden USO graduate group show, Port Townsend, WA Fort
Warden
USO group show
01/10 Canary Gallery Independent show, New Orleans La
02/09 Visions, Group Show/ Berkeley Ca
11/08 Fete des Sans/International art festival/La Marin Martinique La Mairie d’Anse
Arlet/Martinique
02/08 La Kaz Aux Artistes/Le Marin, Martinique
5/06 Silver Scarab Studio/Personal independent gallery/New Orleans LA
8/05 Moxy Studios/Group show/New Orleans LA
7/05 The Bank/Private showing/New Orleans LA
5/05 The Green Muse/Private showing/Austin TX
1/05 Winner of Excellence award in painting/ Am bank New Mexico
1/05 McCrae gallery/group show/Silver city New Mexico
10/04 Produced/Directed/Edited Jazz Music Video, singer Elisabeth Kontomanou
6/04 Photography published , album cover, Jeff “Tain” Watts
5/04 Designed album cover, Eric Revis, /Tales of the stuttering mime
4/04 Wash House, mural painting, Oakland, Ca
1/03 Riverstone Gallery, New Orleans La Café Brazil, New Orleans La
3/03 Arts Walk/Hudson NY
10/02 Monique Goldstrom gallery/ NY NY
5/02 The Leader Gallery/Hudson NY



Investor Q&A

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What does your company do?
The galley is in a storefront on the Pacific Coast highway. I will be painting an 11 series body of large work, "The Glorified Grotesque Gorgeousness of her without shame" 9' by 11' The paintings are painted live in the storefront window constantly transforming becoming a performance piece that will speak to the community and represent change that extends beyond it's environment and can address multiple messages.
Where will your company be in 5 years?
I want to expand the Improvisation theater concept of art in "real time". I want to create a collective artist project where all of the various masterful and magical creators of the world can come together and create improvisational pieces that document historical, emotional and transformational stories This project is called 'La Linea' and will be documented each residency. The library of improvisational pieces will represent the portfolio of the project over time.
Why did you choose this idea?
I didn't choose it, it chose me. This project is an extension of my multidisciplinary work I have done all over the world and the many artists that have been brought together in this improvisational magic movement.
How far along are you? What's your biggest obstacle?
I have already worked through the larger concept and have successfully demonstrated that it can be organized and executed. My largest obstacle right now is not having the resources to take the project to the next level.
Who competes with you? What do you understand that they don't?
In this case the idea of competition doesn't exist. The entire point of creating this project is to bring others along. The project supports other artists and all mediums. The artist residency is not a new concept but the value of the work generated from this venture will be an artistic and cultural contribution to society and all artists participating.
How will you make money?
Art sales from the collection
What are the biggest risks? If you fail, what would be the reason? What has to go right for you to succeed?
At this moment the biggest obstacle is living in a time of Covid 19. The project can not come to it's complete fruition until artists can move around freely and work together without distance restrictions. That is why the storefront public works is the next incarnation of my larger concept and vision. The transformation of work happening in public behind glass holds such a powerful position in the face of this cultural tension and social imbalance.
Where will the project take place?
The live painting/ public work gallery space will happen in a storefront window on the iconic PCH in Oceanside Ca. This location is the perfect place to access a constant flow of transient people up and down the coast. It will be an open studio where the work can morph and develop in real time and the audience is the community along with all the traffic that traverses the coastal roads of southern Ca The collaboration with live musicians, dancers and other artists will be scheduled during the busier times when the social scene is heavier and more travelers are passing through the area. i intend for the window to grow into it's own self publicity and begin to create a narrative that changes with the reality of the times we live.



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