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Hira Schahbaz is a Brooklyn-based artist who is well versed in the centuries old art form of miniature painting. She was trained in miniature art painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan and received at the National College of Arts in Lahore Pakistan and she also received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in New York City.

She exhibits her work at exhibitions of miniature paintings in Pakistan and India. She was an artist in residence at Vermont Studio center and Wassaic Project. At the Art Students League of New York, she is an artist instructor.

-Hira Schahbaz speaks ancient language in a contemporary feminine voice, in regards to her art. She was trained a traditional Indo-Persian painting technique. She also develop imagery to tell stories of antiquity, and aims to challenge the rules of miniature paining.

She uses the female figure to be able to tell a narrative that transcends cultural and political boundaries. She is both an artist and a performer, and the stories she tells addresses issues of personal freedom, destruction, sexuality and censorship by unavailing the beauty, fragility and strength of the female form.

Kate Hush-

Her art consists of a cutting examination of female experience and expectation, Female Behavior showcases Hush's work, where it consists of violent film nor scenes capes in neon lighting. After working in a neon store, Hush began crafting pieces that analyzes a woman's role in society, and she also explores the fetishization of violence by inverting the typical damsel trope and makes the woman the villain.

What themes are explored-

Women being subjugated as decorative figures in paintings. In tradition Mughal miniature paintings is what Schahbaz emulates. Women have taken up a male dominated artistic style for centuries and this clearly emulates the male gaze where women have been objectified. Schahbaz paintings consists of mainly women in order to emulate them expressing themselves. Her work also represents protest because her paintings essentially emulates a rebellion against the patriarchal dominance of society. Kate Hush addresses what it is to be a female in everyday life and there encounters with the alpha males in society.

How does the exhibition and supporting materials relate to the message of the work?

The art work across the exhibition had and Indo-Perisan Style that focused on flattened surfaces. The female nudes simulated the male gaze. Shabazz took on her portraits to another level be instead of focusing on the male gaze, she instead instilled the female gaze. Using the Indo-Persian miniaturist style, she was using a style that was mainly utilized by other male artist. In these paintings, she hazes back at Herself, she makes direct eye contact with the person that had been faceless for years. Her identity is shaped by everyone else in her society. She does not have any individuality, that her culture stripped her of her independence, and that is why there is no such thing as self expression as a women. Shabazz, herself takes pride in being able to voice her own opinion and thought.

DJ Benja Blanket

This is an example of a native american theme of D.Y Begay,  This emulates her family legacy and culture, and it also gives you a feel of love and warm that is exhibited through her quilts. There are spiritual connections that an artist has for land, animals, and her experiences living on the reservation that reflects through her art. This "Blanket" example shows me her heritage and references to their native american people in a positive viewpoint, and I can appreciate her art work due to it specifically addressing feminism and patriarchy. She addresses feminism and patriarchy by creating pieces such as dresses, scarfs and blankets.

 Does seeing the work itself and not a reproduction online or in a text change the impression, meaning or impact of a work? How is this important to the discussion of art?

Yes, seeing the work itself is very important due to the circumstances, of being present in its naturally artistic form. It can help with a better attention to details of the specific message that the author is trying to portray for the audience.

This is important to the discussion of art because there pieces addresses social issues regarding patriarchy and the male gaze, and also it demonstrates the artistic capabilities of female artists. Female artists use there art as an expression of themselves and by having their art shown at an exhibit their ultimate purpose is achieved.

Hiba Schahbaz. Self Portrait as Leda. 2016

Hiba Schahbaz, Self Portrait, 2016

Kate Hush-You can relax around me

Kate Hush- A Bad Man is Hard to Blind

Citation-

Works Citied

http://www.hibaschahbaz.com/about/

Gateway Empty Space Gallery Hiba Self Portraits