Farid text summer series

The year before Haddad’s 1972 residency in New York City on a Fulbright-Hays Foreign Grant, he produced the Summer Series, bold and expressionistic gouache and pencil drawings. Harsh brushstrokes and dynamic fields deliver works that are tumultuous and emotionally charged. These lyrical experiments in abstraction were originally shown at the Sultan Gallery in Kuwait in 1972 where they were observed to have been ahead of their time. The vital energy of the Summer Series bursts forth in Haddad’s works from 1972, all of which are on view here for the first time.