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Amina Mansour
Aricles on Amina Mansour:
Cultivating History - Amina Mansour:
A Work in Progress
By Kerstin Zurbrigg
Alexandria based artist, Amina Mansour,
is a member of a new generation of artists working within Egypt
and within a context which both fuels and problematizes a critical
position. (more...)
Restraint, Madness, and Failure: Chapters in the Work of
Amina Mansour
By Jessica Winegar
Amina Mansour’s Chapter 15:
A Failed Contemporary Attempt at Being a Modern Day Ophelia is the
latest installment in her series of works that tell the story of
the restrained correspondences and maddening ruptures that are produced
in the interaction between different cultural and historical worlds.
(more...)
Resume:
Born in Alabama, USA, 1972
Lives and works in Egypt
Exhibitions
1989-93 L’Atelier D’Alexandrie, Alexandria, Egypt (“Al-Marsam”
group show)
1993 Spanish Cultural Center, Alexandria, Egypt (group show)
1997 Greek Consulate General, Alexandria, Egypt (with Mona Marzouk)
1999 Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (solo exhibition)
2001 Al-Nitaq Festival, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (group show)
2002 Fuori Uso, Ferrotel 2002, Pescara, Italy (group show)
2003 Small Art Works, Akhenaton Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (group show)
2003 Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY (The American Effect group
exhibition)
2003 The Factory Space, Townhouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt (solo exhibition)
Contact: aminalela@hotmail.com
Additional links on works by Amina Mansor:
Cairo gallery representation: www.thetownhousegallery.com/html/artists/amina_mansour.htm
Most recent exhibition: http://www.thetownhousegallery.com/exhibitions/chapter15.htm
Read an interview with the artist at: http://www.cairoartindex.org/Artists/Amina.html
Review of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art:
http://www.nynews.com/newsroom/070403/e0104whitney.html |
