Happy birthday Ghada!

According to Cityfile: Ghada Amer turns 46 ! Happy birthday Ghada!
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kunst-ueberall: Ghada Amer

kunst-ueberall: Ghada Amer: "Untitled, 2005, 57 x 72 cm
b. 1963 Cairo, Egypt, lives and works in New York."

Ghada Amer - Dormeuse jaune et rouge -




Ghada Amer - Dormeuse jaune et rouge -

Embroidered paintings by Ghada Amer marissa.posterous

Ghada amer on Flickr

Apple Picking for Adults. 2007. Acrylic, watercolor, embroidery, and ink on STPI paper


...I like the combination of media and variation of line giving it interesting qualities; the expressiveness of the watercolour with the definition of the line. It is very subtle, with a plain background and the pastel colours of the butterflies and is something i also like about it.

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Allison Schooler's blog :The Brooklyn Museum: Ghada Amer


Set in the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art the “Ghada Amer: Love Has No End” exhibition showcases modernist abstract painting, embroidered sculpture, and the artist’s conceptual work regarding terror. Amer’s work mostly deals with injustice for women and the Arab world. The exhibition consists of fifty pieces of Amer’s art with including some collaborative works by Riza Farkhondeh. The exhibition is broken up into the four sections.

go and visit the Allison Schooler's blog to get the whole story