Shahzia Sikander
Museum of Contemporary Art
11 December 2007 - 3 March 2008
This summer, discover the eloquent and intricately beautiful paintings and watercolours of Shahzia Sikander.
From tightly structured miniature paintings to large, loosely formed watercolours in which pigments stain and bleed into one another, her work involves a contemporary interpretation of historical tradition.
Born in Pakistan and trained in Mughal miniaturist tradition, Sikander relocated to New York in 1993 to undertake further studies.
She has gone on to develop a truly distinctive iconography built around the fusion of Eastern and Western imagery, mythology and popular cultural references.
Hindu and Muslim imagery co-exist in Sikander's art, as harmoniously as the mix of figurative and abstract elements.
Beauty, sensuality and a gently subversive humour underlies her works with their rounded female forms, mandalas, courtly interiors and dancing deities.
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