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excited to announce that we have invited the artist Ambreen Butt
to create a portfolio of six etchings to
be published by Wingate Studio. Ambreen is a painter, born in Lahore
Pakistan and curretly 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 Ambreen continues to use the heroic woman figure
while incorporating images from online world news sites and unlikely
decorative forms to create a multilayered and 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.

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Ambreen
Butt

The first three
images in this series of six are near completion and should be available
by early April. Work is ongoing for the final three images of the
series. Image size is 13 x 18 inches.
Contact us at
wingates@worldpath.net
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We've also been
busy putting the finishing touches on Gideon
Bok's new color print. Over the last year and a half
Gideon has made several visits to re-work and add new plates to
the image that was editioned as Wingate
Studio with Aldo's Press (Threnody to R.L.Burnside). The
new print has grown to six plates.Gideon has overlayed a second
view of the print shop from a different side, and has added color.
The image reproduced here is the latest state of the print and is
very close to completion.
Gideon has been
working as an artist in residence at University of Southern Maine
in Gorham this winter, where he has been using their art gallery
as his painting studio. Visitors are welcome to stop at the gallery
and see his paintings as they progress in a kind of live exhibition
of evolving work . There will be a closing reception for this exhibit
on Thursday, April 3rd, from 5-7 pm.For more info visit the USM
Gallery web site.

Wingate
Studio with Aldo's Press (No Sleep 'Til Hinsdale)
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