The US-based artist Mequitta Ahuja paints self-portraits that blend the personal with the art historical through a masterful interplay of content and technique. This video essay discusses how Ahuja’s recent oil paintings contest the historically Eurocentric and androcentric institution of art and constitute a productive—and hopeful—intervention in the art historical canon.
The US-based artist Mequitta Ahuja paints self-portraits that blend the personal with the art historical through a masterful interplay of content and technique. This video essay discusses how Ahuja’s recent oil paintings contest the historically Eurocentric and androcentric institution of art and constitute a productive—and hopeful—intervention in the art historical canon.