Jamil Molaeb

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Jamil Molaeb’s artistic formation took shape between Lebanon and Europe, beginning with studies in fine arts in Beirut and continuing in the United States. His academic background was complemented by a sustained involvement in the Lebanese artistic milieu upon his return, where he combined teaching with an extensive studio practice. Molaeb’s work moves fluidly between figuration and abstraction, grounded in a visual vocabulary that incorporates landscape, architecture, and the human form as frameworks of cultural and personal memory. His paintings reveal a constant dialogue between inherited tradition and modern formalism. The surface, at once tactile and disciplined, reflects his preoccupation with the materiality of paint and the narrative potential of colour and texture. Throughout his career, he has developed a coherent and distinctive body of work in which the themes of belonging, displacement, and continuity are treated not as anecdotal subjects but as visual meditations. He has exhibited extensively in Beirut, Cairo, Paris, and New York, and his works feature in significant public and private collections. Beyond painting, his practice encompasses printmaking and low-relief sculpture, testifying to an enduring interest in the structural and experimental possibilities of form. Molaeb’s contribution to Lebanese modern art resides in his capacity to articulate a personal aesthetic that reconciles local sensibility with the universal vocabulary of modernism, securing his position as a lucid and measured voice within post-war Middle Eastern art.