Ambreen Butt (B. 1969)

These two works by Ambreen Butt are likely from her 1999 series, Bed of My Own Making. The linear structure of her works reference both Zahoor ul Akhlaq as well as Agnes Martin. As a Pakistani artist residing in the US, Butt in her own words, is "rejecting conventional social roles and challenging the sterotypes [American] culture associates with women in Islam; achieving independence and yet guarding the spirit of time-honored traditions" within the constraints of this medium. (K. Miller-Lewis, Home and the World, India Center of Art & Culture, New York, March 2001, unpaginated).