Beauty and Danger in the Art of Ambreen Butt
about 10 months ago (12/12/2023)
Beauty and Danger in the Art of Ambreen Butt Skip to content Ambreen Butt, "Arsenal of Ambiguity" (2023), tea, coffee, watercolor, and collage on tea-stained paper, 44 x 30 inches (all images courtesy Gallery Wendi Norris) SAN FRANCISCO — Ambreen Butt: Lay Bare My Arms at Gallery Wendi Norris combines collage and text with traditional South Asian miniature painting to create energetic works that radiate delicate beauty, underpinned by a pervasive threat of violence. Lay Bare My Arms coincides with the publication of the Pakistan-born, Texas-based artist’s first monograph, What Comes to My Lips , after more than two decades of group and solo exhibitions. Beauty and violence have long been themes in Butt’s work.