Perceptions
Sughra Raza. Beech Bark Landscape. June, 2021. Digital photograph.
Sughra Raza
Sughra grew up in Karachi, Pakistan, along with siblings Abbas and Azra (above), and several others. She studied fine arts as an undergraduate, later shifting gears to become a doctor of medicine, specializing in diagnostic radiology. Sughra lives in Boston, Massachusetts, working and teaching at Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. She feels most excited in a world of images, invention, art and music; and despite Fenway Park floodlights lighting up the sky in her windows, she remains oblivious to the Red Sox battling the Yankees a stone’s throw away. Email: [email protected]
Perceptions
Helen Marden. Raja Ampat, 2018. Resin, acrylic, powered paint, and abalone shells on linen. More here and here.
Perceptions
Shada Safadi. Promises. 2014. Engraving on plexiglass. “That spirit could have flown without being seen by anyone. But the horror of what happened, and it’s struggling out of fear, made it leave an impact that demands of us, we the ones how are alive, to give promises. We forget the promises we give to our…
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. River Magic. May, 2021. Digital photograph.
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. Untitled, April 2021. Digital photograph.
Perceptions
Jorg Madlener. Elegy For Syria, 2020. More here and here. Thanks to Vicki Sharp for bringing this work to my attention.
Perceptions
ET Trigg. I Can’t Breathe, 2020. More here and here. Thanks ET!
Perceptions
Ekua Holmes. There’s No Place Like Home. More here and here.
Perceptions
Anderson Ambroise. Rubble Sculpture. More here and here.
Perceptions
Marlène Huissoud. A3 Drawings 8, 2020. More here, here, and here.
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. It’s Still Winter After All. March 2021. Digital photograph.
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. Crowing! Rwanda 2016. Digital photograph.
Perceptions
Pati Hill. A Swan: An Opera in Nine Chapters, 1978 (detail from chapter 5). More here, here, and here.
Perceptions
Toyin Ojih Odutola. Paris Apartment, 2016. Charcoal, pastel and pencil on paper. More here and here.
Perceptions
From the exhibition “The Breath of Empty Space” at Mass MOCA now through May 2021. More here and here.
Perceptions
Jammie Holmes. (title not found) More here, and here.
Perceptions
Wu Tsang, boychild. Untitled. 2019. More here, here, and here.
Perceptions
Luchita Hurtado. Untitled, 1971. More here, here, and here.
Perceptions
Sughra Raza. After The Last Trees. January, 2020. Digital photograph.
Perceptions
Sydney Cain. Refutations (Tricksters In Pools), 2020. Graphite, charcoal and pigment on paper. More here, here, and here.