Artist Amna Asghar fuses pop-style screenprinting with painting to explore identity and culture. A Muslim American Pakistani woman based across Detroit and New York, she wants to visualise these experiences.

“I’ve always been interested in asking what if Warhol was Pakistani? What if Baldessari was a brown woman?” she says. “What sort of images would we see? It’s about inserting yourself into the Western canon of painting.”

Amna’s compositions are an intentionally jarring assemblage of found, corporate imagery and jewel-coloured acrylic painted sections. Often highly graphical or text-based, they reference advertising, graphic design and pop art, and the “factual quality” of printing. “I love the graphic qualities used in advertising – the language of persuasion.” Read More