Ghada Amer Related Press

In Ghada Amer's paintings, threads behave like coloured rivers, abstraction obscures figuration and unknown women proliferate.

Ghada Amer, in her current exhibition at Cheim and Read, does something that formidable artists do: makes a proposal that is, in essence, unanswerable. In her 2016 painting Women in White, she combi

The Female Gaze, Part II: Women Looking at Men,  a group show that runs at Cheim & Read through September 2, is as ambitious in scope as it is in ideology, showcasing work by a wide range of artists–including Tracey Emin, Alice Neel, Diane Arbus, and Jenny Holzer–who have applied a nontraditional lens to viewing and depicting...

Though discovered in 1974, in the midst of African decolonial processes and independence struggles, the original ancestor of all humankind, an African woman was given the name Lucy. But what about her African roots? What about her role as the mother of all humankind? Lucy’s Iris  considers Lucy’s view of her prodigal daughters who...

Currently on display at Cheim & Read is a look at men from the perspective of 32 female artists. The Female Gaze, Part Two: Women Look at Men  is the second half of a two-part exhibition at the Chelsea gallery. The first debuted in 2009 titled Women Look At Women.  This latest exhibition offers multiple portrayals of men...

“It’s our own little Chelsea.” That’s what the American-born, Dubai-based art collector and arts patron Dana Farouki calls Alserkal Avenue, Dubai’s privately developed arts community. There, with a new $14 million expansion, more than 40 new creative spaces join the extant 20 art spaces that have made a crisscross of...

My intention was to try something different and explore a new medium. Each medium I explore always brings a new dimension to my art practice in general, and not only to my paintings. Each medium makes you think in a different way and you have to adopt a different approach. This is very enriching, both artistically and ­conceptually.

Perhaps the biggest challenge when hosting an exhibition at Leila Heller Gallery, newly opened in Dubai’s Alserkal Avenue, is to fill its vast space. The cavernous 14,000-square-foot area is the largest commercial gallery in the Middle East and as such, could present a daunting challenge to the artist and curator. However, its...

“I want to be known as a British male artist or an American white male artist, because they get a lot of attention,” the Egyptian-born artist Ghada Amer says in Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath’s recent book Summer, Autumn, Winter and Spring: Conversations with Arab Artists. “They don’t have shows like ‘Women...