Anila Quayyum Agha

"Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven" marks the largest and most comprehensive book to date of the work of Anila Quayyum Agha, the distinguished Pakistani American visual artist renowned for her profound visual explorations of women's history, spirituality, and the American immigrant experience.Spanning two decades and all aspects of Agha's multifaceted practice, the book brings together immersive installations, works on paper, paintings, and large-scale wall sculptures. The artist's conceptually rigorous and visually alluring works ground complicated ideas using "patterns used to break patterns," as the "New York Times" put it in a recent profile of the artist, while amplifying and poetically conveying the contradictions and layered dimensions of the American journey.Published in connection with the eponymous exhibition at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, "Interwoven" includes essays that explore Agha's work through the lenses of biography, feminism, and art and architectural history.