Sean Kelly announced that the gallery now represents internationally acclaimed artist Shahzia Sikander. Sikander’s pioneering practice takes classical Indo-Persian miniature painting as its point of departure and challenges the strict formal tropes of the genre by experimenting with scale and various forms of new media. Informed by South Asian, American, Feminist and Muslim perspectives, Sikander has developed a unique, critically charged approach to this time-honored medium––employing its continuous capacity for reinvention to interrogate ideas of language, trade and empire, and migration. Sikander`s work will be prominently featured on the gallery`s booth at The Armory Show (Booth 501), where on Saturday, March 4, at 5:30 pm, she will be participating in a panel discussion on the history of feminism as it relates to art for Armory Live. Born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1969, Shahzia Sikander received her
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