Indra Persad-Milowe is a visual artist living and working in Salem, Massachusetts. She works primarily with acrylic paints on canvas and her work focuses on personal experiences and reliving her childhood memories while growing up in Trinidad in the ’50s and ’60s. Her paintings reflect the many cultural traditions of Trinidad and Tobago including traditional Hindu ceremonies, African folklore as well as the natural beauty of the islands.

Shalu Juneja is an Indian artist who works across diverse media such as charcoal sketching, painting and sculptures. Her art delves into human beings and nature, especially the female form and has a figurative style. She loves to experiment with different techniques and the spontaneous use of mark making and various textures on the canvas.

We visited Mohammad Omer Khalil’s exhibition “You Don’t Have to Be” at New York City’s Aicon Gallery which spans his fifty year career within the contemporary Arabic art scene.