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Sughra Raza. Pavement Expressionism. June 2014. 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]
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Ntozake Shange, right, with Janet League in her play “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf,” 1976. Bettmann/Getty Images More here, here, and here.
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Still You Bloom in This Land of No Gardens, 2021. Acrylic, photographic transfers, colored pencil, and collage on paper. More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Untitled. Rwanda, January 2023. Digital photograph.
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Ada Beams. Landscape Somewhere in France, 2022. Digital photograph. With permission from the artist.
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Sughra Raza. Early Winter Shapes, January 2022. Digital photograph.
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Flor Garduno. Basket of Light, Sumpango, Guatemala. 1989. More here and here. Thanks to Lauren Shaw for showing me this work!
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Lita Albuquerque. Southern Cross, 2014, from Stellar Axis: Antarctica, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica, 2006. More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Cactus In My Window. Digital photograph.
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Loriel Beltran. P.S.W. 2007-2017 Acrylic and latex paint on wood panel. More here and here.
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Tomm El-Saieh. Title Unknown. ca 2021 More here and here.
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Wendy Red Star. Winter – The Four Seasons Series, 2006. Archival pigment print on sunset fiber rag More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Chughtai In Shabnam’s Living Room, November, 2022. Digital Photograph.
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Carlos Donjuan. Together Alone. More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Valparaiso Expressions. Chile, November 2017. Digital photograph.
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Benny Andrews. Portrait of The Portrait Painter, 1987. More here, here, and here.
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Sughra Raza. Shadow Self-Portrait in a Reflection of a Window in a Window. Oolloo House, Vermont. October 22, 2022. Digital photograph.
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Deborah Roberts. Shankia and Grace. 2021. Collage and mixed media. More here, here, and currently at ICA Boston..
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Naomi Lawrence. Tierra Frágil, 2022. Acrylic yarn and zip ties. Photograph by Sughra Raza in Morningside Park, Harlem, NY. September, 2022. More here.
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Sughra Raza. Public Garden Water Feature, Boston. June 2022. Digital photograph.