Giclee Reproductions - Seattle Landmarks
“Unsurprisingly in art from or about a politically volatile culture, the work is grounded in social ideas. Ameen Dhillon’s diaristic, accordion-fold book of prints is haunted by ghosts of a colonial past.”
“[Ameen Dhillon’s] The Mango Tree [shown at Diasporadics, an art festival held in New York City] generated a sense of locality that “expresses itself” in certain kinds of agency, sociality, and reproducibility ... for the young South Asians who gathered ... The Mango Tree was critical to producing a shared experience of sociality...”
musings
You can follow Ameen’s latest activities on Instagram at AmeenDhillonArt or just get a flavor for her posts below.
musings
“While ... real estate magnates pursue their vision of a worldclass Vancouver, [Ameen Dhillon] is immortalizing some of the city’s neglected old buildings ... From photos and sketches, she produces striking lithographs.”
“Ameen’s work is frequently about exteriors ... predominantly black and white store fronts and buildings, beautiful, often historical and ornate, contorted, off kilter ... Grandiosity, whether declared by the looming lithographs or contained within miniatures. All of these impressively detailed prints have presence in their stoic absence of the human.”
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6x8 original watercolor on coldpress watercolor paper. Currently home to Kangaroo and Kiwi pub, the first Ballard Library was a Carnegie Free Public Library since 1904.