Well-known for comic illustrations and portrait paintings, Omar Khouri’s work touches on the complicated and layered psychology of the individual in society.

In his current print series, he uses illustration and printmaking to create a portrait of each city.  Using his style of portrait fragmentation which is based on traditional Islamic geometry, the breaks or lines can be seen as a reflection of the contradictions and cracks of fragility in each place. In “Aleppo”, instead of featured monuments of the city, you see the destruction of the civil war.