Connecticut Gallery to Host Perspectives from Asian Women Artists

STAMFORD PLUS
By Sacred Heart University

Finding Home #93 "Mahalat" (Fereshteh) Siona Benjamin, 2006 Gouache and 22K gold leaf on paper 22" x 22"

CONNECTICUT - Sacred Heart University’s Gallery of Contemporary Art will kick off its 2011-2012 season with the exhibit, Fluidity, Layering, Veiling: Perspectives from South Asian and Middle Eastern Women Artists, at an opening reception on Sunday, September 18 from 1pm – 3:30pm.  This exhibit will be on display from September 18 – October 27. Curated by Deborah Frizzell, Ph.D., the five artists included are Samira Abbassy, Jaishri Abichandani, Siona Benjamin, Afarin Rahmanifar and Naomi Safran-Hon. The artists are from South Asia, the Middle East, Europe and the United States and they reinvest aesthetic languages with a new purpose, presenting a sense of both narrative and abstraction, of shifting notions of “community” as a subject. [link]