Our personal and cultural identity is as much defined by what we are, as by what we are not. This divide between self
and otherhood creates a myriad of political, ethnic and social tensions in American society. However, when borders
of identity are challenged, deeper understanding of ourselves can occur. See Line Gallery is proud to present three
rising artists, Asad Faulwell, Roni Feldman, and Ivan Limas who explore the Us versus Them mentality as an
increasingly gray area.

By blending modern forms of painting and collage with Islamic design, Asad Faulwell blurs notions of nationality,
religious, and cultural identity. Along with expressionistic paint strokes that whirl into Arabic script, Faulwell adheres
photographs of leftist, post-colonial Middle-East leaders. These leaders were often loathed by Western government,
yet esteemed in the Middle East as uniters. Through such juxtaposition of friction and unification, Faulwell subverts
misconceptions about the Middle Eastern

Since 2006, Roni Feldman took thousands of photographs of protests, which were montaged and repainted using
airbrush. The works function sociologically with the subjects’ ideology literally displayed on their sleeves. However,
the blurred, crystallographic repetition of figures and color vibrate against the eye and immerse viewers in an ethereal
experience. Through such distortion,

Ivan Limas draws from his experience growing up in Compton. Through drawing, painting, video and sculpture, he
engrosses viewers in confrontational cultural situations which at first seem foreign, yet are eventually recognized as
self-implicit. For Us versus Them, Limas created a large-scale drawing composed of two colliding galaxies swirling
with opposing images and ideas. The nebulous image questions the borders of selfhood and culture.