id:			438797
accession number:	2021.103
share license status:	Copyrighted
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/2021.103
updated:		2023-03-22 03:05:33.827000

Empire Follows Art: States of Agitation 11, 2020. Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani-American, b. 1969). Color digital printing, watercolor and gouache on prepared wove paper; sheet: 40.6 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund 2021.103 © Shahzia Sikander

title:				Empire Follows Art: States of Agitation 11
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creation date:			2020
creation date earliest:		2020
creation date latest:		2020
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creditline:			Norman O. Stone and Ella A. Stone Memorial Fund
copyright:			© Shahzia Sikander

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culture:	America
technique:	color digital printing, watercolor and gouache on prepared wove paper
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - American 21st Century
type:		Drawing
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CREATORS

* Shahzia Sikander (Pakistani-American, b. 1969)  - artist

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measurements: Sheet: 40.6 x 30.5 cm (16 x 12 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	on verso, illegible inscription in pencil
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>Shazia Sikander: Weeping Willows, Liquid Tongues</em>. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY (November 5 – December 19, 2020).

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PROVENANCE

	(Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: 2020-2021
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 2021-
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fun fact:
Shazia Sikander has described the theme of the series to which this drawing belongs as “a state of struggle, of being caught variously between monetizing worlds, vocabularies, competing cultures and histories.”

digital description:
In this drawing, Pakistani-born artist Shazia Sikander innovatively combines the artistic traditions of her native country with expressionistic brushwork related to her Western training. Sikander studied miniature painting at the National College of Arts in Lahore and the influence of this work is visible in digitally printed images of her own creation depicting a figure and animals throughout this sheet. The artist painted over them with dense layers of watercolor, evoking the dualities and divisions of her own identity.

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