http://www.hamraabbas.com Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:35:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hamra Abbas: Cities Green Cardamom, London Private View, Thursday September 8th, 2011 Exhibition continues till October 21st, 2011 http://www.hamraabbas.com/cities/ Vanhaerents Art Collection, Sympathy for the Devil, Brussels April 30th, 2011-November 30th, 2013 http://www.hamraabbas.com/sympathy-for-the-devil/ PHotoEspaña 2011, Power of Doubt curated by Hou Hanru Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid June 2nd-September 11th, 2011 http://www.hamraabbas.com/power-of-doubt/ Interview with Hamra Abbas: "All works involve some degree of complication" http://www.hamraabbas.com/1545/ Hamra Abbas | 2011 Winner About the Abraaj Capital Art Prize: Announced in 2008, at US$ 1 million in disbursements, it is the world’s most generous art prize. Annually it rewards chosen artists from the MENASA region on the basis of a proposal rather than completed works-of-art. The winning artists then go ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/acap-2011/ Hamra Abbas: Artist Talk organized by Asia Society, Houston Contemporary Arts Museum Houston Tuesday, June 29, 2010 – 7 pm http://www.hamraabbas.com/talk-asia-societycamh/ Hamra Abbas | The Second Annual Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Islamic Studies Program Conference Harvard University, Cambridge, MA April 17th-18th, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/hamra-abbas-the-second-annual-prince-alwaleed-bin-talal-islamic-studies-program-conference-harvard-university/ Hamra Abbas: An Intimate Artist's Talk Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, ON Friday, March 19, 2010 – 7 pm http://www.hamraabbas.com/talk-rom-2/ Beyond the Page: The Miniature as Attitude in Contemporary Art from Pakistan Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA February 18, 2010 – June 27, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/beyond-the-page/ Exhibition of Contemporary Art from Pakistan to Open at Pacific Asia Museum http://www.hamraabbas.com/beyond-the-page_review/ EVERYDAY MIRACLES (EXTENDED) San Francisco Art Institute, CA October 1, 2009 – January 30, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/love-yourself-sfai/ EVERYDAY MIRACLES (EXTENDED) RedCat, Los Angeles, CA Guest curated by Hou Hanru November 22, 2009 – January 17, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/52/ Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan Asia Society Museum, New York, NY September 10, 2009 – January 3, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/132/ Hamra Abbas: Read Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Institute for Contemporary Culture Until March 28, 2010 http://www.hamraabbas.com/169/ ICC's Read Provides Another Response to the ROM's Dead Sea Scrolls Exhibition http://www.hamraabbas.com/370/ Contradictions Remain Vital to Pakistan and Its Art by Randy Kennedy The New York Times, September 2, 2009 http://www.hamraabbas.com/ride-2-asia-society-ny/ Visiting Artist Lecture: Hamra Abbas Riley Seminar Room, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston http://www.hamraabbas.com/389/ << click thumbnail for slideshows Woman in Black (2011). Comprised of three stained glass windows measuring three meters in height, Woman in Black depicts the iconic image of a fictional female super-heroine. To view the work the audience is invited to sit on pew-like benches, inside a darkened room reminiscent of ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work_woman-in-black-2/ Cityscapes 3 (2011). It is not uncommon for artists and writers to take a particular city as their muse. Cities like Paris, Istanbul, Venice, Cairo, London and countless others have been the subject of literary reflections, charcoal drawings, oil and water paintings, fiction, and for a host of other purposes ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work_cityscapes-3/ Su'ar (2011). The word su’ar is used both in Urdu (dialect) and Punjabi for boar. Boar is a repugnant animal in Islam whose meat is forbidden to Muslims. This is seen to be largely in line with all prophets prior to the Prophet Muhammad. The Quran and the tradition (Sunnah) ... http://www.hamraabbas.com/work_suar/