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Overcoming the Canadian Wilderness
Starting in highschool, I was discouraged from making paintings that were meant to be ‘hung over the couch’. While I’m grateful for the shove my teachers gave me to step into the conceptual realms of art practice, I’ve been feeling the need to decorate and turn my works into ornaments meant to be admired for
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Multicoloured
2015 Dimensions: 5′ x 8′ Ink on Canvas This painting is very closely related to Among Shades of White, Toronto-scapes and Skyline. It is a response to the works of The Group of Seven, a group of famous Canadian landscape artists. The image loosely references a picture taken of the Don Valley close to my neighbourhood, Thorncliffe
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Among Shades of White
2015 Dimensions: 4′ x 8′ Modelling Paste and Ink on Canvas This painting is a continuation of Multicoloured. Instead of using an abundance of bright colours to fill the canvas, I have decided to leave the canvas blank and use texture, rather than colour, to add form to the painting. I am using the
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The Ignored Geniuses
2014 The Ignored Geniuses is a painting inspired by my love of bright colours, natural landscapes, and most importantly, my developing awareness of gender inequality in Western art history. Recently, my mother, Masooma Dairywala, has been bringing me pretty ribbons, lace flowers and other decorative items she finds beautiful. Although these items are meant
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Can Mini Skirts and Feminism be Friends?
When a woman goes out wearing a miniskirt, an article of clothing most strongly associated with female sexuality, she becomes a symbol of two paradoxical ideas. On one hand, she is liberated through her rejection of traditional female images, such as the housewife, and is proud of her feminine sexuality. On the other hand, she
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The Role of Women in Surrealism
Surrealism was a gated realm created exclusively for male artists, the majority of whom objectified and fetishized women. For a female artist to unlock this gate, she had to fulfill the male artists’ need for narrowing the role of women down to an object of male desire. This conception of women blinded male Surrealists to
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Pixellating Landscape
2013 Dimensions: 4′ x 6′ Oils on Canvas I haven’t travelled much, so when I went to British Columbia this summer, I was in heaven. But while there, I couldn’t help being a bit pessimistic while thinking about the future of such a breath-taking place. Would the trees soon be replaced by buildings, and
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Why Painting Has Been Kept Alive
Painting has been pronounced dead many times. Douglas Crimp, one of the main critics of painting, argues that painting has become old-fashioned. With the use of techniques such as appropriation, quotation and duplication, newer mediums like photography, film, and video are doing what painting has failed to do (Miles, Christopher). Yet, the majority of art
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Tasneem Dairywala 