Contemporary Art: Nadia Waheed @ Aicon Gallery New York

 (Drivebycuriosity) - Contemporary art is full of discoveries. On a walk through Manhattan I passed Aicon Gallery on Great Jones Street. The gallery specializes in modern and contemporary non-Western art with a special focus on South Asia. This time they showed work by Nadia Waheed and others. The exhibition is called "Notes From The Motherland" (aicongallery. ). 

 

This post is about Waheed´s paintings. She is born in Saudi Arabia but originally from Pakistan, Nadia Waheed (b. 1992, BFA 2015 School of the Art Institute of Chicago  mindysolomon)

On top  you can see "Red C, Dead C" (2021, Oil on canvas) followed by “Danaides Redux” (2021, Oil on canvas) & “Pilgrims, Sojourners” (2021 Oil on canvas  ).

Above follows “And I Promise You, I" (2021, Oil on Caravaggio 504, polyester canvas).

To be continued