Sundaram Tagore Gallery, exhibits "A Moment to Consider," September 8–October 8. Works by ANILA QUAYYUM AGHA.

Please join Sundaram and Anila Quayyum Agha for a dazzling, immersive experience at the Chelsea gallery during the opening of A Moment to Consider, on view September 8–October 8.   Work by the award-winning Pakistani-American artist, who was recently profiled in The New York Times, has been the subject of eight solo museum shows since 2019. More than a dozen more museum exhibitions are slated.  For this exhibition, Agha reimagines ornamental patterns from history in metal, resin and paper using traditional and contemporary techniques of craft. The work—which includes a large-scale light installation that envelops viewers in light and shadow—pays homage to artists and craftspeople who historically have gone unrecognized and unnamed despite the importance of their artistic output. This is Agha’s first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Chelsea.  EXPLORE THE EXHIBITION ABOUT ANILA QUAYYUM AGHA Anila Quayyum Agha works in a cross-disciplinary fashion with mixed media. She is internationally recognized for her award-winning large-scale light installations that use light and pattern to create immersive shared experiences and inclusive spaces. “In a world where difference and divergence dominate most conversations about the intersection of cultures, my artwork explores the harmonies without ignoring the shadows, ambiguities and dark spaces between them,” she says.   Major awards include the 2019 Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation and the 2021 SARF (Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship). In 2019, Agha’s work was included in She Persists at the Venice Biennale.  Born in Lahore, Pakistan, 1965 | Lives and works in Augusta, Georgia, and Indianapolis, Indiana. CONTACT US SUNDARAM TAGORE CHELSEA 542 West 26th Street, New York, NY 10001 212 677 4520 • gallery@sundaramtagore.com Artwork pictured, from top: Paradise (Mughal Gardens/Patterned Cube) II, 2022, resin, 47 x 47 inches/119.4 x 119.4 cm Stealing Beauty (Steel Garden – After Durer’s A Great Piece of Turf) (detail), 2022, mirrored stainless steel, 60 x 150 inches/152.4 x 381 cm A Beautiful Despair, 2022, lacquered steel and halogen bulb, 60 x 60 x 60 inches/152.4 x 152.4 x 152.4 cm Circle the Kaaba (Silver and Gold), 2021, embroidery and beads on paper, 30 x 30 inches/76.2 x 76.2 cm. Photo by Stefan Jennings courtesy of University of New Mexico Museum of Art Share Tweet Share Forward to Friend #sundamtagorechelsea#fineartmagazine#artfunshow