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Shahzia Sikander
READY TO LEAVE (1997)
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Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani, 1969) - SpiNN (I) (2003)
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Last week, the Madison Square Park Conservancy unveiled its latest commission, Shahzia Sikander’s three-part installation Havah… to breathe, air, life.
The Pakistani-American artist, best known for her painting practice that encapsulates the essence of Indo-Persian miniature works through a feminist lens, translated her specific skillsets across material and scale to also introduce the first female subject upon the ten plinths of the Manhattan Appellate Courthouse’s rooftop (there are other female figures elsewhere on the building), across the street from the park.
Rhea Nayyar spends an afternoon in the park with the artist’s golden monuments in her latest article.
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- Shahzia Sikander, "Witness" (2023)
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How Artists of the Asian Diaspora Are Drawing on Traditions from Their Heritage
Across various mediums, contemporary artists from the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora draw on traditional art techniques. From Kashmiri embroidery to Native Hawaiian kapa to Indigenous Filipino banig weaving, new generations are not only embracing and preserving these legacies, but also expanding the artistic possibilities of these methods.
While today, these cultural practices are frequently celebrated, for some, it has been a protracted struggle to have their traditions recognized as legitimate.
For Artsy, I highlight five artists whose practices are influenced by traditional techniques.
Image: Jiha Moon, Yellowave (Nocturnal), 2022, Mindy Solomon Gallery
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MWW Artwork of the Day (3/25/23)
Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani-American, b. 1969)
Pleasure Pillars (2001)
Vegetable color, dry pigment, watercolor & tea on wasli paper, 36.8 x 30.8 cm.
Sean Kelly Gallery, New York
The 1990s witnessed some of Sikander’s most powerful breakthroughs. A more personal and signature style emerged with the appearance of invented forms and the integration of abstract motifs within the luscious infrastructure of miniature paintings. A proliferation of female figures extracted from a wide range of art history sources was unleashed, many borrowed from the traditional miniature paintings of South and Central Asia. "Pleasure Pillars" exemplifies the intricacies of an epic vision realized within the tight spaces of a miniature painting. Overlapping or isolated figures inhabit undefined spaces embellished with abstract patterns, rich swaths of color, and other fine details that are disorienting yet engaging.
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Shahzia Sikander.
Pleasure Pillars. 2001.
Watercolor and dry pigment on Wasli paper.
17" x 12"
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Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani American, b. 1969) - The Perennial Gaze
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shahzia sikander
1. “Eye-I-ing those Armorial Bearings,” 1989–97
2. “SpiNN (III),” 2003
Watercolor on tea-stained wasli paper
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Daily Painting
Shahzia Sikander
WHO'S VEILED ANYWAY? (1997)
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Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani-American, 1969) - Touchstone (2021)
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Maligned Monsters I, 9500
Shahzia Sikander, Pakistani-American, b. 1969
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Maligned Monsters, 2001
Shahzia Sikander
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