Humaira Abid’s ‘Self Portrait’ speaks bluntly about gender inequality By Michael Upchurch, in the Seattle Times “Exquisite craft and barbed wit blend perfectly in the work of Humaira Abid. Her medium is wood. Her focus is on social inequities. Her feelings, particularly, about the roles that women are expected to play in her native Pakistan…
Pacific Northwest artist Elaine Hanowell has been perfecting her lighted sculptures of fish since 1986. After a large commission in 1989 by Tom Douglas for his restaurant, the Dahlia Lounge, Hanowell’s lighted fish became a signature style of the restaurant and her work. 30 years later, her work is now in homes and public collections…
Read “Dialogue of the Unsent,” an article about Deborah Kapoor in Surface Design Journal.
The Dreaming, or ‘Tjukurrpa’, also means to ‘see and understand the law’ as it is translated from the Arrernte language (Frank Gillen with Baldwin Spencer, translating an Arrernte word Altyerrenge). Dreaming stories pass on important knowledge, cultural values and belief systems to later generations. Through song, dance, painting and storytelling which express the dreaming stories,…
Stacked Tetradecagons (14 sided polyhedrons) were made in honor of Sekiguchi’s father, a mathematician who favored geometry as the most elegant form of math. In the original installation after her father passed, she made 12 sets of the tetradecagons for a total of 168 panels, an auspicious number in Chinese numerology. Each set had a…
Born in 1960, Beryl Collins is an Anmatyerre speaker. Her traditional homeland is Ngarliyikirlangu and Yuelamu. Her finely detailed dot paintings represent her memories and heritage, particularly the Women, Emu and Honey Ant Dreamings.
Winged Mandala (2012) 46” x 46” Enamel on scroll cut wood $1200 It is a long tradition in Japan to identify clans by their family crests (mon in Japanese). Sekiguchi’s family crest is crossed hawk feathers. She has taken the feather, expanded the representation to the whole wing, and manipulated their configuration into a radiating…
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