Artwork Description
Nusra Qureshi – The Black Widow Watches On
Dimensions: 21 x 28″ paper
Year: 2015
Medium: 5-color lithograph
Edition: ed. 24/35
Nusra Qureshi’s lithograph was published by Landfall Press. Qureshi was trained in Mughal miniature painting in Lahore, Pakistan. “She has developed a rich, contemporary visual language featuring motifs from the past, ideas from the present, and techniques from both. Isolated female figures foreground layered imagery appropriated from colonial photography, patterns from textiles, silhouettes and botanical paintings. While presenting history as a collection of overlapping fragments, Qureshi reveals complex stereotypes, which are in turn rearranged to construct new narratives.” -Quote is from Sutton Gallery