Los Angeles, CA (February 6, 2020) – Vietnam war Veteran Osiris Munir has turned her participation in the U.S. Veteran’s Administration Art Therapy Program into an exciting career as an abstract artist. However, it is an expensive endeavor to purchase art supplies such as oil paint, acrylic paint, crayons, pencils, canvases, markers, sticks and brushes. A GoFundMe Campaign has been created seeking assistance in purchasing these supplies.
Through the Veteran’s Art Therapy Program, Abstract Expressionism has a new face in the world of fine art. Munir has been able to channel her traumatic experiences into a deepened visual and psychological power. While serving her country, she encountered constant sexual harassment and was even brutally gang raped by the very men whom she was trained to work with and trust as a team with her life.
With an honorable discharged from the military, civilian life became even more challenging for Munir. She developed chronic depression, could not eat, sleep and even became homeless at one period with her two children. She recalls the most hair-raising effect of the rape is the physical damage it did to her body and the mental harm it did to her psychologically. Munir has since been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), depression, severe anxiety and Bipolar Disorder.
The Veteran’s Art Therapy program has become a life force outlet for Munir to express everything that has happened to her as well as putting her on the map as a popular, expressionist painter. Art curator Carla Goldberg of the Bau Gallery and the Skylight Gallery in New York describes Munir’s art work as “A Visual Intuitive or Intuit Abstract Artist, who uses her art as a spiritual connection that allows her to lead the way as images form through the layers of paint.”
Prior to joining the Veteran’s Art Therapy program Munir had never picked up a paint brush. As a matter of fact, she did not even like art, but says “When my fingers or a paint brush hits the blank canvas, something deep inside of me comes to life. All the fear, physical pain, mental pain, depression and anxiety and other feelings, at that moment of exposure reveal itself in the art works that I create.”
Munir is an expressionist painter whose paintings are based on optical characteristics. She sees faces and images in brilliant colors, emphasized by energetic and expressive brushstrokes, that deliberately accentuate the sweep of her arms and the movement of her hands.
This unique type of art is reflected as gestural painting, also known as “gesturalism.” In other words, the brushworks and fingers allows one to express their emotions and personality, just like a person’s gestures reflect their feelings in everyday life.
For service men and women and their families, the Veteran’s Art Therapy program has become critical in changing the lives of survivors. This is why a gift of any amount is crucial to Munir’s survival because, after many, many, years Munir and others like her have found the exact outlet needed to express emotion and work hard to release the other disorders they suffer from.
For more information on the art work of Osiris Munir, please visit her gallery page at https://ankhentertainmentone.net/gallery/. For more information on the GoFundMe Campaign please visit www.gofundme.com/osirismunir.
About Osiris Munir:
Munir is a former member of the prestigious California Art Club in Pasadena, California. She has had her paintings on exhibition at Swarthy’s in Pasadena and has donated art to Innovative Theatres Inc., and charities such as the Being Alive/HIV and Aids Organizations across Los Angeles. Her art has been regarded by Investment Level art dealer, Joyce Wetzel and museum art curator, Jill Moniz. In addition, many of Munir’s paintings have been acquired by private collectors and lovers of fine art.
About The U.S. Veteran’s Administration Art Therapy Program:
One of the most exciting things taking place in the field of art therapy is the area of treating veterans with PTSD, TBI and other psychological health conditions. The Veteran’s Art Therapy program is a comprehensive rehabilitation program for service men, women and their families that provides assistance, support and education during their recovery treatment and beyond. For more information www.usa.gov/federal-agencies/u-s-department-of-veterans-affairs
Former Vietnam War Veteran, Osiris Munir Has Created a GoFundMe Campaign
Seeking Assistance to Purchase Art Supplies as a Participant of the U.S. Veteran’s Administration Art Therapy Program
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