Former Glassell School of Art fellow Shahzia Sikander returns to MFAH with an exhibition of her own
By 1995 Sikander had earned a Master of Fine Arts in Painting and Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design and was dabbling with the idea of paper as skin. Her female characters — sometimes the artist, sometimes not — appeared as both self-rooted and buoyant. They suspended in air, still-tethered to their native country while orienting a new land.
“There’s this idea of the griffin, a mythical creature so quick you think ‘Did I imagine it?’” Sikander explains. In that sense, she continues, women are a sort of poltergeist — the ghost-like, unseen cause of various cultural disturbances and disruption. Another large-scale installation, “A Slight and Pleasing Dislocation” , is actually an unfinished panel originally intended to be a 50-foot mural.
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