Ambreen Butt

Born:
1969
Residence:
Lexington, Massachusetts, USA
Nationality:
American, Pakistani
Trust:
APT New York
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  • Our weekly edit of the top new museum and gallery shows worldwide, featuring Julian Schnabel in Berlin and the latest opening at power house Lévy Gorvy

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  • The Edinburgh Art Festival remains a slender operation compared to many art events, with just seven new commissions this year, relying heavily on partner shows.

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  • This year’s non-profit programme of new artist commissions at Frieze London is curated by Raphael Gygax (Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich) and will feature eleven artists from eight countries across the world.

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  • Houston artists Tierney Malone and Robert Hodge join Glasstire’s Rainey Knudson in Galveston to count down the top shows in Texas this week.

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  • Prospect.4, the fourth iteration of a New Orleans citywide exhibition that opens opens November 16-19, 2017, has announced its list of 73 participating artists, including three Texan artists.

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  • Until August 31, 2017, the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), will present the exhibition titled "Revisiones," which gather a series of contemporary works from the collections, created in the context of the tenth anniversary of the Comité de Adquisiciones de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), whose members are entrusted with the diversification of the museum's collection.

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  • Casa Triangulo Gallery is currently participating at the SP Arte 2017 in São Paulo. The fair will continue to run through April 9, 2017.

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  • Last Thursday at Neiman Marcus, gallerists mingled with patrons and staff members of the 2017 Dallas Art Fair.

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  • Last night, the PinchukArtCentre announced Dineo Seshee Bopape as the winner of the 2017 Future Generation Art Prize in Kiev, Ukraine.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The first time Carlos Motta picked up a camera he was 15 years old, curious about his place in the world, seeking to understand how he might belong. Because of his inward-facing questioning, instead of the typical photographer’s strategy of turning the camera out to map and aesthetically organize his...

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  • $50,000 prize honors immigrant contributions to the United States

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  • Iman Issa, Meleko Mokgosi, and Carlos Motta awarded Vilcek Prizes for Creative Promise

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • The 63 participating artists look for their place in an unstable society.

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  • Montreal, 1967: in celebration of the Canadian Centennial, a world’s fair representing sixty-two nations not only blessed the city with a metro system, but also with some related architectural leftovers.

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  • “Narco-traffic drug dealers like these styles,” she said, motioning to gold and green glass bracelets, the jagged stones set into glittering chainmail bands. This is Bogota, Colombia, yes, so you might assume she is talking about jewelry in a pawn shop. They’re actually art works with an asking price of €20,000 for the set.

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  • Incerteza Viva (“Live Uncertainty”) takes uncertainty as a structuring device in order to reflect on our current conditions of economic crisis, political instability, the rise of conservative forces, and ecological and migratory emergencies.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • While visiting Luca Pozzi’s latest exhibition, “U-Drawings,” I found myself thinking about the ideas of the Hungarian artist and theorist György Kepes, particularly his essays in Language of Vision (1944) that describe light as a “creative medium,” capable of creating “a fresh sense of space.” Pozzi’s new work explores how light can be employed in the process of drawing, and also how drawing can be used a tool of awareness.

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  • Starting in Italian Art History and ending in Loop Quantum Gravity, Luca Pozzi is a product of his background. Working across science, nature and philosophy, the Milan-based artist cites Renaissance artists Tiziano and Leonardo Da Vinci, Mantegna, Tintoretto and De Chirico, Lucio Fontana, Gianni Colombo and many more as influences. That’s while collaborating with the likes of electronic engineer Janick Simeray on levitating sea-sponges in ‘The Star Platform’ and exploring the infinite potential of drawing using experiments by Professor Nicolas Gisin, responsible for teletransporting a photon in 2003, as a jumping off point.

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  • Da FL Gallery quattro dispositivi sospesi nello spazio e nel tempo rappresentano il fascio di particelle prima di una collisione in uno dei rivelatori dell’esperimento LHC del CERN.

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  • Frieze London closed their 14th edition of the fair on Sunday 9th October, reporting significant sales to private collectors and public institutions.

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  • Koppe Astner is delighted to present “Inside all my activities”, Laura Aldridge’s second solo exhibition with the gallery.

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  • Hangzhou, an ancient cultural city and a modern leisure city, is going to usher in the high-profile G20 Summit in 2016, a rare opportunity and a driving force to integrate development from different aspects.

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  • “The Resemblance Is All in the Eye of the Beholder” is on view at Galería Agustina Ferreyra in San Juan, Puerto Rico, through Saturday, October 8.

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  • Artists: Brandon Andrew, Judy Chicago, León Ferrari, fierce pussy, Andrea Fraser, Dan Graham, Rana Hamadeh, Linas Jablonskis, Joachim Koester, Carlos

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  • The September issue of frieze is out now, celebrating 25 years of the very best writing on contemporary art and culture.

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  • Instead of simply viewing the striking contemporary artwork on display at “Co-thinkers” — Garage’s latest exhibition — you’re encouraged to engage with it through touch, sound and imagination.

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  • Nearly a half century ago, artist Pablo O’Higgins asked printers Luis and Lea Remba to create a catalogue for his exhibition at the Instituto Nacional

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BIOGRAPHY

Ambreen Butt received a BFA from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan, and an MFA from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. Selected exhibitions include the Museum of Fine Arts, Bernard Toale Gallery and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the Kustera Tilton Gallery and Apex Art in New York, Roberts & Tilton Gallery in Los Angeles, and the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Butt is the 2010 Dartmouth College Artist in Residence and in 2006 she was awarded the Maud Morgan Prize from the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. She is represented by Carroll and Sons in Boston. Ambreen Butt lives and works in Boston.

Ambreen Butt came to the United States in the late 1990s trained in the ancient Persian painting style. Her identity as Pakistani-Muslim transplant in the United States is an essential element to her work, as 9/11 shocked the world and altered her artistic experience. Although still lyrical, her work turned inward after the devastation. Prior to September 11th, Butt created fictional female heroes in the Pakistan tradition. Her narrative work¬ was enchanting, empowering and sensual with universal themes. After September 11th, Butt blended her native style with politics, self-identity and the battle of good versus evil. Birds became jets, the once ambiguous women became Butt and the vestiges of September 11th — nationalism, guns, death and explosions — became prominent elements in her art. Butt’s work deals with universal themes and universal pains, but it is deeply personal. Just as Frida Kahlo’s Mexican and European identities fought one another in her paintings, Butt uses her art to understand her warring identities and her struggles in a shattered world. 


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