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]
Rina Bannerjee. She Is My Country, 2009. Texas long horn steer skull, cowrie shells, steel planters, Hindu ceremony thread, antique mannequin, globes, wire, kitchen towel rack, glass beads, brass bells, Chinese umbrella, Japanese mosquito net, bone beads, copper trim, African necklaces, Chinese lantern, 22 carat gold powder. / Musee Goya, Castres, France, 2012 ” ……
Etel Adnan. Al-Sayyab, Mother and Lost Daughter. 1970. Ink and watercolour on a Japanese book. More here, here, and here.
Painting by Hua Tunan. More here and here.
Samson Young. Landschaft, 2015. More here, here, and here.
Fireworks Makers, covered in gunpowder, as they prepared for New Year’s eve, 2019. Bulacan, Philippines. More here and here.
Michael McGillis. Between Now and Then, 2013. Glass collected from site, incandescent lighting. University of Oregon, Overlook Field School, Dalton, Pennsylvania. More here, here, and here. Detail:
Alex Hanimann. Found Footage. More here, here, and here.
Jennifer Packer. Carolina, 2011. Oil on linen. More here, here, and here. Current show in NYC.
Paula Rego. The Maids, 1987. Acrylic on canvas-backed paper. “The story at the heart of the painting came to Paula Rego ready-made in the form of Jean Genet’s play The Maids (1947), itself based on the real-life case of the Papin sisters, Christine and Lea, who worked as maids for a rich Parisian family. One…
Laura Wheeler Waring. Girl in Red Dress, circa 1935. More here, here, and here. Show at Columbia University through Feb 10, 2019.
Huda Lutfi. Discarded, 2012-13. Wall installation with newspaper, and bottle caps. More here, here, and here.
Sughra Raza. Self Portrait, OCT Lofts, Shenzhen, Nov 2018. Digital photograph.
Terry Winters. Patterns in A Chromatic Field, 2013. Oil on linen. More here, here, and here.
Martha Rosler. Semiotics of the Kitchen, 1975. Single-channel digital video, transferred from video tape, black-and-white, sound, 6 min., 9 sec. More here, here, and here. “Martha Rosler: Irrespective“ opening at The Jewish Museum Nov 2, 2018. Thanks to Jaffer Kolb.
Wifredo Lam. Annonciation de Aime Cesaire, 1982. Etching, and aquatint. More here, here, here, and here.
Sarah Lucas. Bunny gets Snookered, 1997. More here, here, and here. Current New Museum show in NYC.
Vicente Rojo. La Gran Marca, 1966. More here and here.
Naeem Mohaiemen. Forensic Architecture, 2017. Nominee for 2018 Turner Prize. Current show at Tate Britain. More here, here, and here.
Kasamatsu Shiro. In the Woods, 1955. Woodblock print. More here, and here.
Mariam Ghani. Fugitive Refrains, 2006. Fugitive Refrains was conceived and produced collaboratively with Butoh-trained dancer/choreographer Erin Ellen Kelly during a residency at the Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart, Germany. It was developed for, performed, and shot in six specific sites in the Solitude Rotwildpark forest and the historic Schloss Solitude in summer 2006, and premiered…