# @drawingcenter on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/BHDGyA3AQ3v
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/16048542-drawingcenter-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/legacy-do/30a6ea72c30f3a020d99213669a2b6c9c48b3c9070c2d86cc5082f8acd5b7576.jpg
- **Posted:** 2016-06-24T19:12:59.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Drawing Center (@drawingcenter) — https://gondola.cc/drawingcenter

## Caption

Artists have a variety of methods to make their mark. Every Friday we will share a photograph of an #ArtistInAction.

Pakistani-born artist Shahzia Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian miniature painting, a traditional style that is both highly stylized and disciplined. Her struggle between East and West later became her main artistic motivation, stemming provocative imagery that perpetuates – and counters – stereotype paradoxically. Feminism and gender roles prevail as the thematic ideas in Sikander’s work. Sikander has written: “Such juxtaposing and mixing of Hindu and Muslim iconography is a parallel to the entanglement of histories of India and Pakistan.” #ShahziaSikander

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shahziasikander, artistinaction

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