Lot 9: Untitled

Ambreen Butt (B. 1969)
Untitled
pencil, watercolor, thread and mixed media on vellum
13 7/8 x 10 7/8in. (35.2 x 27.7cm.) each (2)

These two works by Ambreen Butt are likely from her 1999 series, Bed of My Own Making . The linear structure of her works reference both Zahoor ul Akhlaq as well as Agnes Martin. As a Pakistani artist residing in the US, Butt in her own words, is "rejecting conventional social roles and challenging the sterotypes [American] culture associates with women in Islam; achieving independence and yet guarding the spirit of time-honored traditions" within the constraints of this medium. (K. Miller-Lewis, Home and the World , India Center of Art & Culture, New York, March 2001, unpaginated).