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Ambreen Butt Born 1969.

Ambreen Butt is a painter, born in Lahore Pakistan and currently living in the United States. Her work, rooted in traditional Persian and Indian miniature painting, addresses issues of contemporary culture through the lense of an Islamic woman living in the western world. Injecting her own image as heroine she creates oblique narratives that are both autobiographical and universal. Her work addresses universal themes of war, violence and oppression as well as more private concerns of identity, desire and awakening.

In this new series of prints, Daughter of the East, Ambreen continues to use the heroic woman figure while incorporating images from online world news sites and unlikely decorative forms. This recombinant content creates a complex vision of traditional and contemporary cultures colliding.

Ambreen Butt is represented by the Bernard Toale Gallery in Boston and at Anna Kustera in new York. Her work is included in major private and museum collections around the United States.

Ladybugs, 2008

six plate color etching, aquatint, spit-bite aquatint, and drypoint with chine collé
edition of 30
published by Wingate Studio
19 x 25 inches