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: sraza1@bwh.harvard.edu
Peter Williams. Special K Standing, 2017. Oil on canvas. "… Titled With So Little To Be Sure Of, the exhibition features a series of oil paintings, drawings, and a mixed-media installation that confronts viewers with the traumatic reality of systemic violence towards African Americans. Ossei-Mensah writes, “Commenting on the concepts of race, representation, white supremacy,…
Diamond Stingily. Elephant Memory, 2016. Installation. "… combines various shades of the store-bought hair not with cute or colorful accessories but with forbidding steel chains and sturdy hooks more befitting the exhibition’s explicit allusions to the threat of violence and to the troubled threshold between public and private. A group of battered apartment doors, weary…
Rashaad Newsome. False Evidence Appearing Real, 2017. And Rozay, 2016. Mixed media, collage on paper. More on this amazing artist here, here, and here.
African Americans protest against police brutality in Harlem, New York, 1963. Protesting police brutality in downtown Seattle, 2015. November, 2015 report by MintPress: "As of Monday evening, U.S. police had killed 1,024 people since the start of the year, according to The Counted, a continuously updated database of U.S. police killings maintained by The Guardian.…
William Klein, Gerard Ifert, Wojciech Zamecznik. 1950s-1960s "… In the post-war years, these three photographers managed to revolutionize photography, despite its young history in the arts. Through photomontages, formal abstractions, they became predecessors and influences of the Bauhaus, a school that promotes the alliance between the fine arts and the applied arts. The artist takes…
Fang Zhaoling. Flowering Branches on Cliffs, 1978. Ink and color on paper. More here and here.
Sughra Raza. Wall at Alfred P. Murrah building, Oklahoma City. 2015. Digital photo.
Daan Roosegaarde. Gates of Light. Windvogel. Glowing Nature. 2017. Installations by Studio Roosegaarde. "The new futuristic entrance of the dike GATES OF LIGHT brings the 60 monumental floodgates of 1932 back to their former glory. Every day 20.000 cars pass by. The structures, which were originally designed by Dirk Roosenburg, the grandfather of Dutch architect…
Sughra Raza. Celebrate Symbiosis – Spanish Moss/Live Oak. New Orleans, Feb 2015. Digital photograph.
Sughra Raza. Summer Stockings. 2006. Digital photograph.
Sughra Raza. Leaving Chicago. 1999. Acrylic on canvas. Posted with permission from the private collection of Anjuli Kolb.
Sughra Raza. In Laura & Dennis’ Yard, As I Was Leaving. 2008. Painting: acrylic on canvas, 2004. Digital photograph January 27, 2008. For my friend Laura Claridge.