Basil Alkazzi’s paintings are transfused with a mystic sense of light while he employs a very modern vocabulary of form. The delicate abstractions float highly varied forms in a sea of space. They embrace the transcendent powers of abstraction.

In his recent paintings he continues the quest to pursue an intensely felt vision. There is deep meditation on nature, reaching towards the core of celebration let loose in a sensory world of nature’s own sensual and mysterious Life-Force.

“Over the decades, Basil Alkazzi had the courage to be an unfashionable painter and to work outside the fleeting trends. Travel is often a metaphor for his life and work.” Wrote the distinguished art critic Donald Kuspit.

“The artistic vision of Basil Alkazzi has never ceased to grow, reflecting the restless aesthetic spirit that it expresses and the ceaseless exploration of form, technique, and subject that it impels. Each phase of the artist’s work stands independently of itself. But each is necessarily the result of the long, unbroken journey of his life, and each expresses the spirit and mind of the artist, unchanged, but ever growing.” wrote the respected art critic Dennis Wepman.

It has been a solitary journey, but amply supported for many years by Halima Nalecz, Max Wykes-Joyce, Eva J. Pape, Ronald Kuchta, Patricia D'Arcy Catron, and continues with Dennis Wepman, and Donald Kuspit.