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...Ambreen Butt??s new show, Home and the World, at the Bernard Toale Gallery, is best described as—okay. The show is not particularily impressive, and begs the question: Is this the final product of an artist who won the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) award its inaugural year...
...answer to that question isn’t entirely clear. Butt??s work shows thought and potential, but the works currently on view at Bernard Toale do not quite succeed in their announced mission...
...continues, “For Ambreen, home is not a location, but a place where she finds comfort—a place where she is free to live in the world of her intellect.” One hopes that this statement references Butt??s larger body of work, as the current exhibition fails to fully articulate this cultural struggle...
Butt begins to falter in her choice of medium and her application of that medium. Resembling ancient Persian manuscripts, Butt??s drawings consist of interlaced pages of semi-transparent dot patterns with a small watercolor over-painting. Additionally, little white circles with words such as “honor,” “doubts” and “passion” are strategically placed on the finished product. The over-paintings are always of either a young turbaned man or a woman, whose face and expression are eerily reminiscent of Frida Kahlo?...
...mail, which was entitled “My Story” and sent to a number of House e-mail lists, three males followed a female resident of the Quad on Sept. 18 from outside Adams House to Kirkland House, where they “grabbed my butt?? and put their hands “all over...