Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction. 〰〰〰〰〰〰〰 Ghada Amer (b. 1963) is an Egyptian artist based in New York and a key figure in contemporary feminist art with her bold paintings that use embroidery as their medium. Amer identifies as a painter, but instead of applying pigment, she stitches threads on the canvas to create embroidered paintings. Historically, painting has been a masculine pursuit and its high status as a medium was reserved for men. “For me, the choice to be mainly a painter...is not only an artistic challenge: its main meaning is occupying a territory that has been denied to women historically,” Amer explains. “I occupy this territory aesthetically and politically because I create materially abstract paintings, but I integrate in this male field a feminine universe: that of sewing and embroidery. By hybridizing those worlds, the canvas becomes a new territory where the feminine has its own pla...