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1999:
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A panel discussion about painting
with Cecily Brown, Shahzia Sikander and Damian Loeb on Mar 24, 1999
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with Cecily Brown, Shahzia Sikander and Damian Loeb on Mar 24, 1999
Shahzia Sikander is a Pakistan-born American artist who specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting. She has also created murals, installations, mixed-media works and performance art. She is a 2006 recipient of the MacArthur Fellows Program “genius grant”.
Sikander’s work has explored stereotypes of Eastern and Pakistani women, and issues relating to the Hindu and Muslim divide in Pakistan and India. She has transformed a traditional art form - the highly precise and often impersonal genre of miniature painting - into a contemporary art context, and she frequently mixes imagery from both Hindu and Muslim mythology and iconography (like the Muslim veil and the Hindu multi-armed goddess), paralleling the complicated and interwoven nature of Indian and Pakistani history and culture.
Source-Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahzia_Sikander
