Canadian artist Antoine Khanji has developed a signature painting language marked by vivid, saturated color, elusive symbols and diagrams, and an interplay of diverse techniques with a contemporary sensibility. He renders his subjects with a pronounced emphasis on bright primary hues—red, yellow, and blue—an influence he attributes to his Middle Eastern heritage and to the dry, hot summers of the region. In 1976, his early work was critiqued and mentored by Elias Zayat, widely regarded as one of the most significant Syrian artists of the 20th century. His first exhibition of oil paintings wa...