National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC
Pakistani-American artist Ambreen Butt combines her training in traditional, labor-intensive Persian miniature painting with contemporary political subject matter. This focus exhibition of works on paper explores her exceptional range of mark-making techniques, including drawing, stitching, staining, etching, and gluing. Butt’s imagery—both figurative and semi-abstract-- evokes organic and free flowing movement, while her subject matter grapples with persistent tensions: religious ideologies and political oppression, beauty and violence, and past and present. The artist’s embrace of varied mark-making processes enriches her work and speaks to broader ideas of women making their mark on society.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Washington, DC