My mother, Donna and I are incredibly excited to officially announce a very meaningful exhibition that we have been working on for the past year. We invite you all to join us at @galleryca on Friday May 8 from 6-9pm for the opening of Katazomé: A Multidisciplinary Visual Art Exhibition. We will also be hosting artist talks at the gallery on Saturday May 16 and 30 from 2-5pm. The exhibition will be on view from May 8 - 30 and gallery hours are Monday-Friday 12-4pm and by appointment (call/text 443-370-4684).
Through this exhibition we will tell the story of Donna’s journey to Japan to study the ancient art of katazomé. I will present a series of new paintings inspired by Donna’s artwork and photographs, shown alongside her original katazomé work on handmade paper and fabric from the 1970s and 1980s. We will share a personal family story of discovering cultural roots, intergenerational exchange, and transcending discrimination by finding identity through art and creativity. This exhibition is a program of the 2026 Asia North Exhibition and Festival and is supported by a 2025 Rubys Artist Grant, which is a program of the @rwdfoundation .
We would like to thank @stationnorth and @central_baltimore_partnership for including our exhibition opening in the May Station North Art Walk this Friday! This amazing event includes many venues across the Station North Arts District.
My mother, Donna and I invite you all to join us at @galleryca this Friday from 6-9PM for the opening of Katazomé: A Multidisciplinary Visual Art Exhibition. We are incredibly excited to share our work and story with everyone!
We will also be hosting artist talks at the gallery on Saturday May 16 and 30 from 2-5pm. The exhibition will be on view from May 8 - 30 and gallery hours are Monday-Friday 12-4pm and by appointment (call/text 443-370-4684).
Through this exhibition we will tell the story of Donna’s journey to Japan to study the ancient art of katazomé. I will present a series of new paintings inspired by Donna’s artwork and photographs, shown alongside her original katazomé work on handmade paper and fabric from the 1970s and 1980s. We will share a personal family story of discovering cultural roots, intergenerational exchange, and transcending discrimination by finding identity through art and creativity. This exhibition is a program of the 2026 Asia North Exhibition and Festival and is supported by a 2025 Rubys Artist Grant, which is a program of the @rwdfoundation
Threshold, Image — Documentation + moments from the opening, artist & curator talk, and Art Walk at Gallery CA, Baltimore.
Thank you to everyone who came through, listened, and spent time with the work. It truly meant a lot.
Special thanks to @gibby_studio for his patience and support throughout the show
■
Threshold, Image marks the first solo exhibition of multidisciplinary Palestinian-Jordanian artist and designer Faris Dajani (b.1996). Oscillating between the immediacy of gesture and the tensions of constructed narratives, the artist’s recent body of work unravels through distortions of alienation, self-conflict, and martyrdom.
Through multimedia work, Dajani's intuitive approach serves as a method for maintaining empathy while witnessing spectacle.
The works and their arrangement both parallel the ongoing dialogue between the artist and curator as cultural producers of the West Asian diaspora. Analytical texts by artist and curator Delilah Jabbour contextually draw lines of meaning, probing how Western culture sustains our collective fictions of progress, how political violence becomes distant abstraction, and how ideology ruptures the very windows through which we project our desires.
TONIGHT! Stop by anytime from 5–9PM for the last chance to see Threshold, Image!
Marking the first solo exhibition of multidisciplinary Palestinian-Jordanian artist Faris Dajani, his recent body of work unravels through distortions of alienation, self-conflict, and martyrdom. Threshold, Image presents charcoal drawings, multimedia paintings, and video work, placing the four borders of the image as cropped limits where reality stops and subjectivity begins.
Curated by Delilah Jabbour
📍GalleryCA, 440 E Oliver St
Image Captions:
(slide 2) Faris Dajani, summary execution, إعدام ميداني
2025, Acrylic & Charcoal on Canvas, 36” x 62.5”
(slide 3) Faris Dajani, the atom, الذرة
2025, Ink & Acrylic on Canvas, 47.5” x 47.5”
☆☆☆
𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙄𝙎𝙏 𝘽𝙄𝙊
FARIS DAJANI is a multidisciplinary artist and designer from Amman, Jordan. His practice oscillates between the personal (cathartic) and the political (analytical), using painting, drawing and video to channel and objectify those polarities. He began his career in the arts working on art direction and graphic design within Amman’s experimental music scene, notably helping establish or run entities such as Malakat Records and MNFA. Recently, Faris created the artwork for ENOUGH!, a 62-track fundraiser compilation released by Dreaming Live, in support of the Ghassan Abu Sittah Foundation. He also collaborates with filmmakers, crafting posters and pitch decks for various films, including The Alleys by Bassel Ghandour. Currently, Faris is pursuing an MFA in Multidisciplinary Art at MICA as a Fulbright Scholar, specializing in painting, drawing, and video. His video work RIFT was officially selected for 12Gates & PAAFF's Contemporary Video Art Exhibition 2025, and his video Memories of a Lost Vitality received the 2024–2025 Eisenstein Zimelman Award for time-based media.
𝘾𝙐𝙍𝘼𝙏𝙊𝙍 𝘽𝙄𝙊
DELILAH JABBOUR is a Lebanese-American multimedia artist, experimental curator, and archival scholar based in Baltimore, Maryland. Often provoking postcolonial legacies, she intertwines collective action and diasporic preservation. Through this framework, she designs immersive spaces that create an illusory sense of longing, desire, and absurdism, using cultural memory as a tool for critical engagement with sociopolitical structures. Delilah served as a 2025 ArtTable Curatorial Fellow at The Print Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her recent curated exhibitions in Baltimore include Access Granted and Echoes of the Closet. Her artwork has been shown in various group exhibitions in Baltimore and across Pennsylvania. Recent awards include the Davis-Putter Scholarship; Point Access Scholarship; MICA Graduate Research Development Grant; MICA Graduate Merit Fellowship; and a Schreyer Honors Medal for an undergraduate thesis in Race & Ethnic Studies at Pennsylvania State University. Delilah is currently completing an MFA in Curatorial Practice from MICA.
This is an exhibition about images. Images that move and images that require your contribution to that end. The image is a window with four cropped limits, four passages suggesting that a full picture exists somewhere. In reality, beyond the border lies nothing at all. Our fantasies, desires and fears live here; ideology lives here. We tell stories in these passages, filling the void to complete the picture.
Opening Reception:
February 14, 5 – 7 PM
Artist & Curator Talk:
February 28, 4 – 5 PM
Threshold, Image marks the first solo exhibition of multidisciplinary Palestinian-Jordanian artist and designer Faris Dajani (b. 1996). Oscillating between the immediacy of gesture and the tensions of constructed narratives, the artist’s recent body of work unravels through distortions of alienation, self-conflict, and martyrdom. Threshold, Image presents charcoal drawings, multimedia paintings, and video work, placing the four borders of the image as cropped limits where reality stops and subjectivity begins.
Curated by @delilahjabbour
📍GALLERY CA, 440 E Oliver St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Credits:
(slide 1) Faris Dajani, summary execution / إعدام ميداني,
2025, acrylic & charcoal on canvas, 75 x 35 inches
(slide 2) Faris Dajani, how do we (ex)pend our days?/ كيف نقضي (على) يومنا؟
,2025 graphite, charcoal and ink on newsprint
(slide 3) Faris Dajani, through pane / عبر نافذة, Acrylic, Pastel & Clay on Tinted Cotton, 24 x 20 inches
Announcing an upcoming exhibition of the recent artwork of @farisdaj ! Getting to work alongside him as curator has been lovely, and we look forward to inviting you all to our show.
Opening Reception:
February 14, 5 – 7 PM
Artist & Curator Talk:
February 28, 4 – 5 PM
Threshold, Image marks the first solo exhibition of multidisciplinary Palestinian-Jordanian artist and designer Faris Dajani (b. 1996). Oscillating between the immediacy of gesture and the tensions of constructed narratives, the artist’s recent body of work unravels through distortions of alienation, self-conflict, and martyrdom. Threshold, Image presents charcoal drawings, multimedia paintings, and video work, placing the four borders of the image as cropped limits where reality stops and subjectivity begins.
📍GALLERY CA, 440 E Oliver St, Baltimore, MD 21202
Credits:
(slide 1) Faris Dajani, even the dogs / حتى الكلاب,
2025, acrylic, oil, & graphite on canvas, 31.5 x 31.5 inches
(slide 2) Faris Dajani, RIFT, 2025, single-channel video, 3:18 duration
Thank you to @sarahbmccannbmore for taking the time to truly understand my work, and to the team at @galleryca for their support — and for existing to uplift artists in Baltimore.
SO MANY people helped me get to this point. I’m deeply grateful to every one of you.
This show has meant so much to me. It’s given me the chance to finally share things in my head for 5–10+ years, and to bring together people from all the different compartments of my life. An integration of various hats and responsibilities, healing and motivating.
It’s pretty wild how different it looks now! One more week to see this piece at @galleryca ! The gallery is open 3-6p on 12/3, 12/4 or 12/12.
My biggest concern last spring was a the porcelain cracking in the kiln. That journey from fragile greenware to finished piece, is the foundation for the works concept.
For me the three vases that make up, Decadent Collectibles (one of three shown in the video) simultaneously display softness and rigidity, power and fragility.
